What should be considered is, if filesharing were not around, at ALL, would their losses equal $1.5 trillion. Do their lawyers understand what a trillion is? I wonder if, in the entire history of the music industry, if they have taken in that much.
Sorry I didn't see this earlier and respond. Its probably not needed for a church in an area where there are not that many other churches.
In areas such as mine, I hate to use the term "competing with other churches" because that is not right. In an area with many churches, the churches tend to offer different styles of worship, different activities and programs, and so forth. Many people, when searching for churches, will check out websites (everyone who found our church in the past year has done so through our website). For example, if you have children, you want to know if the church has a good children's program. So forth and so on. So, the idea of a church website is primaraly to promote youurself to people who may be searching, to give them an idea of what to expect before they walk in the doors.
The second reason for a church website is to have a place to present stuff to members - photo albums, videos, and so forth. Some larger churches have logins to areas of the site, so members can view information online, have community discussions (bulletin boards), tithe online and see their financial contribution records, so forth and so on.
"As long as Flash and its cousins Flex and Shockwave remain the simplest tools for producing drop-dead gorgeous Websites, they'll keep their place on the Internet."
People still design content for Real Player, and here at the office, we got thousands of users who ({full body shudder} still use Frontpage 2000.
When I took over the church website, the company that they had paid to design the old one did it completely in Flash. One single Flash file, 1.8 meg. Ugh! I was originally going to break it up into a dozen or so smaller flash files, of about 50k or so each, but they had animated text - which they stupidly converted to a graphic, animated menus by frame, making it impossible to add anything to the menu.... In the end, I found another church's website I liked, stole their CSS, and customized the heck out of it, and having it looking WAY better than the Flash ever was, and MUCH faster.
Flash should NEVER be used for a site, or, if it is, have the option of an HTML page. Many sites should also consider mobil versions (been debating on one for the church, but at around a couple of hundred hits a week, seems like overkill at this time). Let me take that back - it shouldn't be used for any site that you get information from. If I am going to go to http://www.harrypotter.com/ or some kid site like http://www.bratz.com/ or something like that, where I am expecting to play games or something, Flash is a pretty good tool. These sites are not something I am going to be pulling up on an iPhone. I'm sorry, iPhone owners, but do you REALLY want to play Farmville on your phone (truthfully, I can't see playing Farmville anywhere, but that's me).
However, if I am going to a movie theater's webstie, I don't want to be swamped in that information. Go try to pull up http://www.ravemotionpictures.com/ on your touchscreen phone on Edge or 3G, and try to see how long it takes you to get showtimes on it. go ahead, I'll wait.
The point is, you need to understand your audience, what kind of information they are looking for, and where they are likely to be trying to access that information from. Microsoft's security bulliten websites may not look that nice on my iPhone, but seriously, why am I accessing that information on my phone for anyways?
Flash certainly has its place, as does Shockwave, on and off the web. And if you are programing your site in Flash or Shockwave, you really shouldn't be trying to present material that someone on a smartphone would want to look at anyways. And if you are programming in Flash, dont go making your flash files over 50k-100k if the majority of your visitors are not on broadband. In my case, as I am in a fairly low to lower-middle class area, the idea that the design company designed a 1.8 meg Flash file for a CHURCH website, without any HTML backup, assuming that most users are on broadband (That's what the person who designed the site told me) was stupidity in my opinion.While many are on DSL in my area, still tons of people on NetZero.
But, I am sad to say, I have actually employed a little bit of Flash on the site. When you pull up a photoalbum, it is in Flash. Used JAlbum to produce it. Yes, I could have produced it without Flash, but it made it much easier to incorporate a photo album when people could right-click and see Flash options rather than Save Image As options. (No, I did not tell them about the Print Scrn button, otherwise there would never be a single picture on our site). The flash file is actually about 5k and loads a set of pictures in another directory.
So, Flash rich site with games and multimedia where the majority (that is, all) of your users are on broadband - Good use of Flash. Trying to use Flash on a restaraunt, store, or informational site that needs to be constantly updated or accessed from a SmartPhone - BAD use of Flash.
Where was I going with this? Eh, who cares, I said enough.
I agree with the parent. Also, if you are just so Anti-Microsoft that you will not touch anything VB (like probably half the readers at Slashdot), check out AutoIT. We use a combination of AutoIT and VB scripts up here where I work, and they get the job done quite well.
As I noted in another post, I think it all has to do with the forum being used. Saying "Fuck you" in a bar while you are drunk has a clearly different meaning than saying it in an elementary school. Saying it to a lady in the bar, ie "I want to fuck you" or "I want to have intercourse with you", while dirty, would suddenly go to a whole different level if you were to say it to a kid at the beforementioned elementary school.
Likewise, saying it on network television is different from saying it on cable television. I am okay with it on network television. I watch South Park and other stuff. Then again, I am watching Comedy Central, I know what to expect. I also know how to hide the adult channels on my guide because I do get slightly offended by those show names. Now, you take something like that, and, even if you use #$*!, if you put it on network television, its the wrong forum.
I kind of do agree. I mean, its one thing to use it in print in place of an explative. Using it in Title on network television, I don't know. The group kind of has a point, the title is clearly there to get attention, when they could have used any other title. I am truthfully torn between free speech and shock value. I probably would not be torn at all if it was cable - that kind of stuff is to be expected.
I don't think the idea of having some form of moral decency or moral code or moral value is a bad thing, and I kind of agree that a line needs to be drawn somewhere over what is okay. If you want to go on cable or satelite radio or into print saying whatever you want, well, be my guess. If you instead choose a forum that many people tune into and you know it will offend, well, that's irresponsible.
Then again, its not like CBS is forcing you to watch it.
Thanks. Yeah, if installing on an older system, really do not want KDE on it.
As for the old one, the old 486 I was using but the dust a few years back (lightning storm). Got an old k5 that I am thinking about getting up and running, though.
I haven't been around Slackware in a while. I thought Slackware's main selling point back in the day was that it was an 18 floppy install. What's up with this 6 cd / 1 dvd thing? I get modern distros come with apps and stuff, but it just seems a sad day when a slackware iso is larger than a Windows iso (yes, I know the Windows iso doesn't come with apps, that's besides the point). Just saying. My first Linux box was a 486 with 12 meg of ram, 500 meg harddrive, I ran X, an FTP server and a webserver off of that thing.
Not trying to be a hater, just don't get this size thing. I guess I won't be installing this version of slackware on an old system I pull out of storage. Need to go find RedHat 6 I guess.
Nah, you will probably still get beat by the Bobbies for having a camera in public. The only upside would be that you can stream the beating in realtime to UStream
Can't believe in all the hundreds of comments I have just sorted through, about Mohaumad as a Pedofile, athiesm, and many others, not once did anyone ask for the link to the Facebook group.
BTW, in reading the article, the one who is sueing has had the trademark since 1995, the second one registared, but was not approved, in January of this year. Sounds like a legit complaint to me.
Is this just someone claiming they own the trademark, or can they like prove it - like they have been using it and writing for ZDNet for 15 years using that name?
If they really have been using it as a handle for years, and has business tied to it, then that is a legit argument.
And, seriously, the other girl is actually allowing this to go to court? It takes like a whole 20 seconds to change one's username on Twitter, and all your followers automatically go to your new username. I would have changed it to GeekGirl2, and just have avoided the legal costs.
Does it really matter anymore, though? With more and more sites going away from trackers and to magnet links, if site goes down, someone with a mirror could have all the torrents back up in a matter of mintes / hours. All you really need is a torrent search engine, which, after shutting down their trackers, is pretty much what TPB became. Could easily get the same material off of isohunt or btjunkie or one of the many other torrent search engines out there (google). What I like about TPB is that they have Browse (most torrent sites have this, though), a good user base that will tell you if torrents are fakes (the smaller sites have the ability to comment, but you may only see one or two comments on a popular file, and none on a less popular file), and the fact that they FIGHT.
The fact that they also have international attention gives me the ability to easily find torrents of television shows not available in the US, although BTJunkie does a great job of this as well. I am a huge fan of the different Talent shows (Britain's Got Talent, Mam Talent, Minute of Fame (translation? its Russian), etc), and about the only way to see half of these shows outside of the original market is BT.
So then you are trusting the government to be able to store and properly treat thousands, if not millions, of film stock, to prevent it from deteriorating over, what is copyright now, 70 years, 100 years? I cringe a the thought of a under-funded US government office being responsible for keeping up with this for decades on end. If a major studio, who has billions of dollars, is unable to maintain prints in their vaults, what makes you think the United States government can.
Still, interesting idea. If someone could realistically pull this off it would be a great thing.
I mean, I don't think I ever used the Limewire client. I jumped on Frostwire to download an MP3 of a song I had purchased in iTunes because the quality was higher and I was using it in a video I was making for private use. So Limewire is gone? People will flock to Sharaza or Frostwire or some other Gnutella (as was stated).
Most Gnutella clients also have pretty good porn filtering software.
What will be lost? Teenagers who don't know how to configure their options that are sharing all their personal photos with the world, and don't even know it.
I mean, seriously, you shut down a client used to connect to an open network? That's like shutting out Internet Explorer because there is copyrighted content on The Web.
You really think the Guardian, one of the most liberal news organizations in the world, is going to give a non-biased opinion on this story?
Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns,
As opposed to what, indoctoring them with left wing views? Didn't the summery state that they were trying to get rid of liberal bias? So, it sounds like you are replacing one form of biased history with another. I would love to see history that is truely purged of any bias, but have yet to see it. Historical accounts are generally recorded by survivors or by the victors, and so you have to take some things with a grain of salt.
As to science, stuff that is proven, that shouldn't be messed with. If Texas wants to teach religion in ADDITION to science, that's one thing, teaching it in place of science is another. Living in Texas, I can tell you that the thought is NOT to throw out science.
Lastly, they used the words "accusations" - that does not mean there is necessaraly any truth to it.
And finally (this really is lastly), it looks that while it is an ongoing newsstory, in my skiming of the article, it does not look like the Guardian is introducing any new information. It sounds like an editorial of an ongoing newsstory.
Well, your Blu-Ray player CAN - depending on which Blu-Ray authoring software I am using at the time depends on whether or not its split.
But good point, unless you have some crappy software player that decides its not going to pre-buffer anything and then you might notice a slight pause between files. Ugh, that's annoying!
For his "downloaded" 720p/1080p movies, its reasonable to assume that these are most likely reencoded to mp4 / mkv files or ts streams, probably between 2-15gig each. An external USB2 Harddrive should be able to keep up with the transfer rates. As such, you could probably go with something such as a USB hub and tons of external harddrives.
But I agree with you. I have DishNetwork DVR with the external Harddrive option. I currently have three external Hard Drives filled with movies. I keep a spreedsheet on the computer that tells me what I have on each drive. If you want to go fancy, CollectorZ has a great databasing program that you could probably use.
Now, as for his raw uncompressed footage, I have a couple of questions here - how many projects are you working on at once that you need to have tons of uncompressed footage, and do you really understand what Uncompressed means? Whether HDV, MP4, or MPEG2, every HD capture technology I am aware of uses some form of compression. The exception may be if you are scanning film in, taking several seconds to several minutes a frame, but it certainly does not sound like that is what you are doing.
I have been doing video editing for about 10 years, and always had space issues. I have handled this in two ways over the years. The first is to work on your project in 2-5 minute segments. Export those to an end format, such as MP4s, then stitch them together later.
Oh, but that's double recompression, you might say. Well, not necessaraly - you can easily use something LIKE VirtualDub (I dont think it currently supports MP4) to stitch video together without reencoding. This takes care of a LOT of harddrive issues when working on a large project.
The second is, and you won't like this, but hear me out, is to go ahead and compress your videos. I am talking about something along the lines of, oh, 20-40Mbps, depending on content, using a good codec and compression software. Saves a buttload of harddrive space, the drop in quality will hardly be noticable. Even then you can still edit, and export again in a fairly high quality. My experience is that you can probably go a couple of generations - IF you use a good codec, good software and high bandwidth - before you start really noticing degregation in video. Sure, if you compare the original to your finished work in front of a 30-40 inch monitor 18 inches from your face, you will probably notice a difference, but anyone else you show the finished product to - from a normal viewing distance, probably won't notice.
So to sum up, use external harddrives to put your "downloaded" content to, should be plenty of bandwidth on USB2 (or firewire800 if you are a stickler) to do it with, stop keeping around terrabytes of uncompressed video (any project exceeding, oh, lets use a magical number of 500 gig of raw source material, is insane), and, shoot, if all else fails, pickup a Blu-Ray burner. Discs are certainly coming down in price, although it is probably still cheaper to buy external harddrives.
Once again, as the parent pointed out, there is no reason AT ALL to keep all your videos online at once. Not even video production houses do that.
Of course, he would have to use WinRar or Master Splitter for all those 1080p movies - according to the Wikipedia link, your maximum filesize with a GDrive is 25 meg.
No, all the text was there to say that, without a 1.0 release, you will probably not find many new users outside of the community of users you already have.
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What should be considered is, if filesharing were not around, at ALL, would their losses equal $1.5 trillion. Do their lawyers understand what a trillion is? I wonder if, in the entire history of the music industry, if they have taken in that much.
Sorry I didn't see this earlier and respond. Its probably not needed for a church in an area where there are not that many other churches.
In areas such as mine, I hate to use the term "competing with other churches" because that is not right. In an area with many churches, the churches tend to offer different styles of worship, different activities and programs, and so forth. Many people, when searching for churches, will check out websites (everyone who found our church in the past year has done so through our website). For example, if you have children, you want to know if the church has a good children's program. So forth and so on. So, the idea of a church website is primaraly to promote youurself to people who may be searching, to give them an idea of what to expect before they walk in the doors.
The second reason for a church website is to have a place to present stuff to members - photo albums, videos, and so forth. Some larger churches have logins to areas of the site, so members can view information online, have community discussions (bulletin boards), tithe online and see their financial contribution records, so forth and so on.
"As long as Flash and its cousins Flex and Shockwave remain the simplest tools for producing drop-dead gorgeous Websites, they'll keep their place on the Internet."
People still design content for Real Player, and here at the office, we got thousands of users who ({full body shudder} still use Frontpage 2000.
When I took over the church website, the company that they had paid to design the old one did it completely in Flash. One single Flash file, 1.8 meg. Ugh! I was originally going to break it up into a dozen or so smaller flash files, of about 50k or so each, but they had animated text - which they stupidly converted to a graphic, animated menus by frame, making it impossible to add anything to the menu.... In the end, I found another church's website I liked, stole their CSS, and customized the heck out of it, and having it looking WAY better than the Flash ever was, and MUCH faster.
Flash should NEVER be used for a site, or, if it is, have the option of an HTML page. Many sites should also consider mobil versions (been debating on one for the church, but at around a couple of hundred hits a week, seems like overkill at this time). Let me take that back - it shouldn't be used for any site that you get information from. If I am going to go to http://www.harrypotter.com/ or some kid site like http://www.bratz.com/ or something like that, where I am expecting to play games or something, Flash is a pretty good tool. These sites are not something I am going to be pulling up on an iPhone. I'm sorry, iPhone owners, but do you REALLY want to play Farmville on your phone (truthfully, I can't see playing Farmville anywhere, but that's me).
However, if I am going to a movie theater's webstie, I don't want to be swamped in that information. Go try to pull up http://www.ravemotionpictures.com/ on your touchscreen phone on Edge or 3G, and try to see how long it takes you to get showtimes on it. go ahead, I'll wait.
The point is, you need to understand your audience, what kind of information they are looking for, and where they are likely to be trying to access that information from. Microsoft's security bulliten websites may not look that nice on my iPhone, but seriously, why am I accessing that information on my phone for anyways?
Flash certainly has its place, as does Shockwave, on and off the web. And if you are programing your site in Flash or Shockwave, you really shouldn't be trying to present material that someone on a smartphone would want to look at anyways. And if you are programming in Flash, dont go making your flash files over 50k-100k if the majority of your visitors are not on broadband. In my case, as I am in a fairly low to lower-middle class area, the idea that the design company designed a 1.8 meg Flash file for a CHURCH website, without any HTML backup, assuming that most users are on broadband (That's what the person who designed the site told me) was stupidity in my opinion.While many are on DSL in my area, still tons of people on NetZero.
But, I am sad to say, I have actually employed a little bit of Flash on the site. When you pull up a photoalbum, it is in Flash. Used JAlbum to produce it. Yes, I could have produced it without Flash, but it made it much easier to incorporate a photo album when people could right-click and see Flash options rather than Save Image As options. (No, I did not tell them about the Print Scrn button, otherwise there would never be a single picture on our site). The flash file is actually about 5k and loads a set of pictures in another directory.
So, Flash rich site with games and multimedia where the majority (that is, all) of your users are on broadband - Good use of Flash. Trying to use Flash on a restaraunt, store, or informational site that needs to be constantly updated or accessed from a SmartPhone - BAD use of Flash.
Where was I going with this? Eh, who cares, I said enough.
Who needs to photograph barcodes when SnapTell lets you photograph objects.
http://www.snaptell.com/
Here's what will happen. Sesame Street and WordWorld will take them to court, they will win, so Microsoft, instead of paying the settlements, will end up buying the companies out. Microsoft then will have a CGI cartoon production house and an outlet into early childhood television to promote their products. Its not like a technology company has never used puppets to sell technology before. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/06/01/206212/The-Muppets-1967-IBM-Sales-Films?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)
I agree with the parent. Also, if you are just so Anti-Microsoft that you will not touch anything VB (like probably half the readers at Slashdot), check out AutoIT. We use a combination of AutoIT and VB scripts up here where I work, and they get the job done quite well.
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml
As I noted in another post, I think it all has to do with the forum being used. Saying "Fuck you" in a bar while you are drunk has a clearly different meaning than saying it in an elementary school. Saying it to a lady in the bar, ie "I want to fuck you" or "I want to have intercourse with you", while dirty, would suddenly go to a whole different level if you were to say it to a kid at the beforementioned elementary school.
Likewise, saying it on network television is different from saying it on cable television. I am okay with it on network television. I watch South Park and other stuff. Then again, I am watching Comedy Central, I know what to expect. I also know how to hide the adult channels on my guide because I do get slightly offended by those show names. Now, you take something like that, and, even if you use #$*!, if you put it on network television, its the wrong forum.
I kind of do agree. I mean, its one thing to use it in print in place of an explative. Using it in Title on network television, I don't know. The group kind of has a point, the title is clearly there to get attention, when they could have used any other title. I am truthfully torn between free speech and shock value. I probably would not be torn at all if it was cable - that kind of stuff is to be expected.
I don't think the idea of having some form of moral decency or moral code or moral value is a bad thing, and I kind of agree that a line needs to be drawn somewhere over what is okay. If you want to go on cable or satelite radio or into print saying whatever you want, well, be my guess. If you instead choose a forum that many people tune into and you know it will offend, well, that's irresponsible.
Then again, its not like CBS is forcing you to watch it.
Sorry, just really torn on this one.
Thanks. Yeah, if installing on an older system, really do not want KDE on it.
As for the old one, the old 486 I was using but the dust a few years back (lightning storm). Got an old k5 that I am thinking about getting up and running, though.
Thanks, that answered my question. :-)
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-3.3/ :-) Floppies!!!!
I haven't been around Slackware in a while. I thought Slackware's main selling point back in the day was that it was an 18 floppy install. What's up with this 6 cd / 1 dvd thing? I get modern distros come with apps and stuff, but it just seems a sad day when a slackware iso is larger than a Windows iso (yes, I know the Windows iso doesn't come with apps, that's besides the point). Just saying. My first Linux box was a 486 with 12 meg of ram, 500 meg harddrive, I ran X, an FTP server and a webserver off of that thing.
Not trying to be a hater, just don't get this size thing. I guess I won't be installing this version of slackware on an old system I pull out of storage. Need to go find RedHat 6 I guess.
Nah, you will probably still get beat by the Bobbies for having a camera in public. The only upside would be that you can stream the beating in realtime to UStream
Can't believe in all the hundreds of comments I have just sorted through, about Mohaumad as a Pedofile, athiesm, and many others, not once did anyone ask for the link to the Facebook group.
BTW, in reading the article, the one who is sueing has had the trademark since 1995, the second one registared, but was not approved, in January of this year. Sounds like a legit complaint to me.
Is this just someone claiming they own the trademark, or can they like prove it - like they have been using it and writing for ZDNet for 15 years using that name?
If they really have been using it as a handle for years, and has business tied to it, then that is a legit argument.
And, seriously, the other girl is actually allowing this to go to court? It takes like a whole 20 seconds to change one's username on Twitter, and all your followers automatically go to your new username. I would have changed it to GeekGirl2, and just have avoided the legal costs.
Does it really matter anymore, though? With more and more sites going away from trackers and to magnet links, if site goes down, someone with a mirror could have all the torrents back up in a matter of mintes / hours. All you really need is a torrent search engine, which, after shutting down their trackers, is pretty much what TPB became. Could easily get the same material off of isohunt or btjunkie or one of the many other torrent search engines out there (google). What I like about TPB is that they have Browse (most torrent sites have this, though), a good user base that will tell you if torrents are fakes (the smaller sites have the ability to comment, but you may only see one or two comments on a popular file, and none on a less popular file), and the fact that they FIGHT.
The fact that they also have international attention gives me the ability to easily find torrents of television shows not available in the US, although BTJunkie does a great job of this as well. I am a huge fan of the different Talent shows (Britain's Got Talent, Mam Talent, Minute of Fame (translation? its Russian), etc), and about the only way to see half of these shows outside of the original market is BT.
So then you are trusting the government to be able to store and properly treat thousands, if not millions, of film stock, to prevent it from deteriorating over, what is copyright now, 70 years, 100 years? I cringe a the thought of a under-funded US government office being responsible for keeping up with this for decades on end. If a major studio, who has billions of dollars, is unable to maintain prints in their vaults, what makes you think the United States government can.
Still, interesting idea. If someone could realistically pull this off it would be a great thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limewire
I mean, I don't think I ever used the Limewire client. I jumped on Frostwire to download an MP3 of a song I had purchased in iTunes because the quality was higher and I was using it in a video I was making for private use. So Limewire is gone? People will flock to Sharaza or Frostwire or some other Gnutella (as was stated).
Most Gnutella clients also have pretty good porn filtering software.
What will be lost? Teenagers who don't know how to configure their options that are sharing all their personal photos with the world, and don't even know it.
I mean, seriously, you shut down a client used to connect to an open network? That's like shutting out Internet Explorer because there is copyrighted content on The Web.
From the Guardian:
You really think the Guardian, one of the most liberal news organizations in the world, is going to give a non-biased opinion on this story?
Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns,
As opposed to what, indoctoring them with left wing views? Didn't the summery state that they were trying to get rid of liberal bias? So, it sounds like you are replacing one form of biased history with another. I would love to see history that is truely purged of any bias, but have yet to see it. Historical accounts are generally recorded by survivors or by the victors, and so you have to take some things with a grain of salt.
As to science, stuff that is proven, that shouldn't be messed with. If Texas wants to teach religion in ADDITION to science, that's one thing, teaching it in place of science is another. Living in Texas, I can tell you that the thought is NOT to throw out science.
Lastly, they used the words "accusations" - that does not mean there is necessaraly any truth to it.
And finally (this really is lastly), it looks that while it is an ongoing newsstory, in my skiming of the article, it does not look like the Guardian is introducing any new information. It sounds like an editorial of an ongoing newsstory.
No, I am implying that they are pirated movies.
Well, your Blu-Ray player CAN - depending on which Blu-Ray authoring software I am using at the time depends on whether or not its split.
But good point, unless you have some crappy software player that decides its not going to pre-buffer anything and then you might notice a slight pause between files. Ugh, that's annoying!
For his "downloaded" 720p/1080p movies, its reasonable to assume that these are most likely reencoded to mp4 / mkv files or ts streams, probably between 2-15gig each. An external USB2 Harddrive should be able to keep up with the transfer rates. As such, you could probably go with something such as a USB hub and tons of external harddrives.
But I agree with you. I have DishNetwork DVR with the external Harddrive option. I currently have three external Hard Drives filled with movies. I keep a spreedsheet on the computer that tells me what I have on each drive. If you want to go fancy, CollectorZ has a great databasing program that you could probably use.
Now, as for his raw uncompressed footage, I have a couple of questions here - how many projects are you working on at once that you need to have tons of uncompressed footage, and do you really understand what Uncompressed means? Whether HDV, MP4, or MPEG2, every HD capture technology I am aware of uses some form of compression. The exception may be if you are scanning film in, taking several seconds to several minutes a frame, but it certainly does not sound like that is what you are doing.
I have been doing video editing for about 10 years, and always had space issues. I have handled this in two ways over the years. The first is to work on your project in 2-5 minute segments. Export those to an end format, such as MP4s, then stitch them together later.
Oh, but that's double recompression, you might say. Well, not necessaraly - you can easily use something LIKE VirtualDub (I dont think it currently supports MP4) to stitch video together without reencoding. This takes care of a LOT of harddrive issues when working on a large project.
The second is, and you won't like this, but hear me out, is to go ahead and compress your videos. I am talking about something along the lines of, oh, 20-40Mbps, depending on content, using a good codec and compression software. Saves a buttload of harddrive space, the drop in quality will hardly be noticable. Even then you can still edit, and export again in a fairly high quality. My experience is that you can probably go a couple of generations - IF you use a good codec, good software and high bandwidth - before you start really noticing degregation in video. Sure, if you compare the original to your finished work in front of a 30-40 inch monitor 18 inches from your face, you will probably notice a difference, but anyone else you show the finished product to - from a normal viewing distance, probably won't notice.
So to sum up, use external harddrives to put your "downloaded" content to, should be plenty of bandwidth on USB2 (or firewire800 if you are a stickler) to do it with, stop keeping around terrabytes of uncompressed video (any project exceeding, oh, lets use a magical number of 500 gig of raw source material, is insane), and, shoot, if all else fails, pickup a Blu-Ray burner. Discs are certainly coming down in price, although it is probably still cheaper to buy external harddrives.
Once again, as the parent pointed out, there is no reason AT ALL to keep all your videos online at once. Not even video production houses do that.
Of course, he would have to use WinRar or Master Splitter for all those 1080p movies - according to the Wikipedia link, your maximum filesize with a GDrive is 25 meg.
No, all the text was there to say that, without a 1.0 release, you will probably not find many new users outside of the community of users you already have.