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on Mon Mar 21, 2005 03:03 PM
from the but-then-they'll-have-to-kill-you dept.
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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even copyrighted material? (Score:5, Funny)
Best usage (Score:5, Funny)
(http://breakplay.com/)
Let's be honest here. Your own private permanent porn collection. What could be better?
Re:Best usage (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.etoyoc.com/yoda | Last Journal: Tuesday June 10 2003, @10:53AM)
Once I have the pile of images and videos, they are really kinda boring. Well, boring after they are filed by sexual position, cup size, and security exploit.
Re:Best usage (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.locoman3d.com/)
Suposedly it's on the site rules too, but can't get on them because of the slashdotting.. :)
They did this before (Score:4, Insightful)
with their caching idea (like coralcache) but 6months later they stopped it, whats to say the same wont happen here ? when people do hosting they want reliability not bandwidth
Yeah baby... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And it failed the test (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.johnlittle.org/)
How Long? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:How Long? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://tru7h.org)
I'm not saying everything (or even a measurable portion) that appears on the internet is worth keeping forever, but the worth of any of it is not something those in the present are qualified to judge on.
In a thousand years, provided humanity hasn't wiped itself out by then, the internet archive (and by extension, ourmedia.org) will be what archaeologists use to learn about us.
Re:How Long? (Score:5, Funny)
Good God, I hope not.
Re:How Long? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday September 09 2004, @09:38PM)
Yes, because thats what I want to be remembered by, porn, All Your Base..., the star wars kid and NumaNuma. Yea... right...
Re:How Long? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:How Long? (Score:4, Funny)
Depends on the economics. (Score:4, Insightful)
--
Want a free iPod? [freeipods.com]
Or try a free Nintendo DS, GC, PS2, Xbox. [freegamingsystems.com] (you only need 4 referrals)
Wired article as proof [wired.com]
Re:How Long? (Score:5, Informative)
In the end, lots of homemade stuff (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://suso.suso.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday March 09 2004, @12:03AM)
Re:In the end, lots of homemade stuff (Score:5, Funny)
(http://biglig.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday November 19 2004, @11:48AM)
Re:Uh huh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ummm, (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Damn thats sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Easy: When they run out of space, they start killing the users. No problem.
I bet there isn't a catch! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Three comments and all about porn! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.slashdot.org/~evenprime/journal | Last Journal: Sunday December 01 2002, @04:18PM)
You are new here, aren't you?
Just be happy that they weren't advocating porn that includes grits anymore.....
obl. privacy concern. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:obl. privacy concern. (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.error-417.com/blog/ | Last Journal: Thursday July 28 2005, @12:43PM)
World's Youngest Video Blogger (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://google.com/)
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.
Which life? (Score:3, Funny)
Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ourmedia.
Already been using it for 9 months (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://bricks-game.de/)
GREAT for independent musicians (Score:3, Interesting)
Not sure what hosting costs your average indy band, but anything that saves them even a few bucks is a boon.
Smells like a cheap ploy (Score:5, Funny)
Here's the plan:
1. Claim to host multimedia for life.
2. Open access for users to *upload*
3. ???
4. Shut down because of bad business plan.
5. Reap the rewards!
Technically you didn't download any files, and by the time *AA comes by, you've shut down and stopped hosting files. (But really we all know you've made those backup copies offline.)
Am I right, or am I right?
Wikipedia (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.alexkrupp.com/)
Re:Wikipedia (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.celsius1414.com/)
Fellowship? Kinship? Scholarship? Readership? Worship?
Re:Repeat after me kids.... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.tv.cream.org/gorilla/vanthal/)
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.
A little known media archive .. (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.violence.de/)
If you own content that might be useful to Wikipedia or the other Wikimedia projects [wikimediafoundation.org], such as holidy photos from a far-away country, please upload it to the Commons. If you don't want to learn the ways of the wiki, you can use the newly created (free) file upload service [wikimedia.org], where Wikimedia volunteers will tag and upload your files for you. The only condition is that you put them under a free license or in the public domain.
Remember, all the Wikimedia projects are run by a non-profit organization that depends on donations [wikimediafoundation.org] from people like you.
Coders needed for open source project (Score:5, Informative)
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 [ourmedia.org] and advisory board [open-media.org].) (Apologies, we're adding more servers tonight.)
See our Volunteer page [ourmedia.org] for details. Pass it along. Or ignore this, as you wish. :~)
-- jd (email [mailto]), co-founder
Re:Porn collection (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are they going to delete stuff like on 9/11? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If it sounds too good to be true ... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.ciar.org/ttk | Last Journal: Monday October 15, @05:30PM)
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