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From Archive.org, Free Multimedia Hosting for Life

Posted by timothy on from the but-then-they'll-have-to-kill-you dept.

powerline22 writes "From the people who gave you the Internet Archive comes Ourmedia, a place for grassroots media to flourish. Upload anything, maybe a video, some pictures, your custom applescript, and it gets hosted for free, for life. Drupal is hosting the site, and the Internet Archive is providing hosting and bandwidth for the files."

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  1. Best usage by stupidfoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Porn

    Let's be honest here. Your own private permanent porn collection. What could be better?

  2. Yeah baby... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, what's the better way to stress-test their servers than announce it on slashdot.org?

  3. How Long? by bleckywelcky · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How long can this really last? Bandwidth costs money. Servers cost money. Power costs money. Admins need to eat. I think it's a good idea, but just wondering where the funds are going to come from.

    1. Re:How Long? by ArcticFlood · · Score: 5, Informative

      This page tells how archive.org obtains its funding.

      --
      This is here so you don't ignore the last two lines of my posts.
    2. Re:How Long? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      the internet archive (and by extension, ourmedia.org) will be what archaeologists use to learn about us.

      Good God, I hope not.

  4. World's Youngest Video Blogger by filmmaker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The segment about the "World's Youngest Video Blogger" is amazing. The time to media was a matter of a couple weeks and she goes from her first iMovie lesson from her father to being on ABC's "People of the Year" show.

    It then hit me: she's a "bigger" star online than on the television. Just watching that piece inadvertantly acts as a portent for a time when television is more or less culturally irrelevant, or more to the point, indistinguishable from "web" media.

    --
    I Want To Believe
  5. Re:Uh huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "For life"....

    ..."OF OUR COMPANY!!!." Oh shit, I said the quite part loud and the loud part quiet.

  6. Re:Damn thats sweet! by Ktistec+Machine · · Score: 5, Funny
    the 'permenant for life' thing seems a little wishful, but we'll see

    Easy: When they run out of space, they start killing the users. No problem.

  7. Re:And it failed the test by johnlittledotorg · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm guessing that they haven't enabled Drupal's throttle feature. The feature allows you to weight blocks of content/features and switch them off at predetermined load levels. Drupal, with a decent host of course, is perfectly capable of handling slashdot levels of traffic if traffic throttling is implemented properly.

  8. Re:Repeat after me kids.... by nicky_d · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "FREE".

    That's a mantra for C21st America if ever I heard one. Of course there's such a thing as 'free'. Yeah, someone pays, but if it ain't me, then it's free. If I end up with two copies of a book and I give one away, I've paid for both but the surplus copy is entirely free to whoever I give it to. If I help a friend out with their PC, I pay with my time, but the service is free to them. Things are sometimes done in kindness, or in the service of a better world, even in this day and age. Don't let 'them' convince you otherwise.

    Of course, free iPod schemes are a different matter, and I'd imagine this kind of cynical appeal to the frugally covetous is what you're talking about. But I don't equate archive.org with the architects of those kind of schemes. It IS still possible to get something good and decent for free, and that's something to be thankful for.

  9. Re:If it sounds too good to be true ... by TTK+Ciar · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Internet Archive has been around since 1996. We're funded by webcrawls-by-contract and by the Brewster Kahle Foundation. The Archive is a non-profit organization. We have no creditors. So relax.

    It is in our charter to perpetuate our archives forever, and it's a charge we take seriously. As our hard drives go bad (and oh do they ever!) they are replaced by new ones, and we are protected from data loss by mirroring our archives across machines, and across data centers in different countries.

    -- TTK

  10. Coders needed for open source project by aaronsorkin · · Score: 5, Informative
    I was wondering whether to post this to /. or not.

    What the hell -- we're a free, not-for-profit, open-source media project. It doesn't get more Slashdotty than that.

    We're looking for coders to help out on Ourmedia -- to make it a Slashdotter's multimedia wet dream.

    The Ourmedia Project is relying on open-source developers to build new functionalities for the site -- such as media ratings, new RSS features, playlists, social networking, license searches, improved taxonomies -- and to help build a global registry connecting a network of grassroots media sites.

    That means six months from now we don't want to be just a destination website -- we want open-source schemas that will let any site hook into a global network of freely accessible grassroots media.

    But we can't pull that off unless more expert coders pitch in. (Here's our current project team and advisory board.) (Apologies, we're adding more servers tonight.)

    See our Volunteer page for details. Pass it along. Or ignore this, as you wish. :~) -- jd (email), co-founder