Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? 458
Fred Nowicki asks: "If you have ever used the P2P client Direct Connect (or DC++) to find media on the Internet, you know that the best hubs have ridiculous sharing requirements, i.e., over 100GB. It isn't too difficult to amass a collection of 100GB of illegal movies and MP3s with all the crap that's out there, but I'd like to play it straight: I want to collect 150GB of pure legal stuff. So here's my million dollar question: What is the best and fastest way for me achieve this? I want to offer interesting, neat stuff (movies, music, programs, etc.), not just Linux distros, mind you. One thing I've found so far is a mirror of the Prelinger Archives on archive.org, which offers over 37GB of wacky, interesting stuff on divx format (in MPEG-2, it's over 350GB, but that seems like cheating if I take that route). One downside of this site is that it's not a very fast connection (about 50KB/sec through their FTP via my cable modem -- I'd like a throughput of at least 100KB/sec). I've considered mirroring the Gutenberg project, but there are all sorts of redistribution issues with a bunch of their files, and I don't want to go through all that hassle. Come on, Slashdot. Give me some URLs!"
Best way (Score:3, Insightful)
See my URL... (Score:3, Insightful)
Jaysyn
Try some legal music sites for starts (Score:2, Insightful)
Let me get this straight... (Score:2, Insightful)
Or.... (Score:4, Insightful)
http://ns-co.net/ as an example.
You could also have the linux binaries for them.
You could carry Tenebrae, quakeforge, etc. It would
add up eventually.
Gutenberg... (Score:2, Insightful)
ideas... (Score:5, Insightful)
look up some DJ Demo Tapes - most of these guys will prolly cherish the thought of lightening theirbandwidth load with further distribution - give attribution in filename
movie trailers which are downloadable will prolly not (C)-free but are gray zone - no one will honesty try to subpoena you because of it, their case would be kinda weak (not sure about that)
look for serious abandonware sites - sites that specialize i software/emulator images that are indeed released by their former makers (mostly inexistant now)
host linux distros (not sure about that)
watch /. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the /. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
Most of these are still gray area to some extent. Hard question actually...:)
Archive.org (Score:4, Insightful)
I recommened the old "educational" movies [archive.org], but there's a lot more stuff to be found at archive.org [archive.org].
Re:think about this... (Score:2, Insightful)
Just as soon as they find all the people that are sharing illegally, then they are just going to say that the people doing all the legal sharing were just doing it to access the illegal content. Not that they can really prosecute without having it on your HDD, but they get what they want in the end. The destruction of the filesharing network.
IIRC, there is a famous old saying by a German about not speaking up when they came for the gypsies and Jews, but when they came for him, there was no one left to speak up. Well, when the legal sharers won't speak up for the others using the network, who will speak up for them when their time comes?
SR-71 Flight Manual (Score:1, Insightful)
It's like 170 MB and is an interesting, but yet tiring read.
WTC movies as well (Score:3, Insightful)
Video footage of other disasters can also help you fill up a 150 GB hard disk. Here are some clips [die.net] of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Just make sure to ask any identifiable copyright owner before you mirror them on DC.
Re:think about this... (Score:3, Insightful)
Thus, since filesharing cannot be banned, they must concede the point that we've been trying to make for the past several years, that illegal filesharing is a social problem and not a technological one.
Re:In a band? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The easy solution (Score:3, Insightful)
leech.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:legal mp3 music sites (Score:3, Insightful)
I can't say that I care too much about most file sharing, but Emusic's taking a gamble that I want to see succeed: they're offering fully unlocked music and relying on the integrity of their customers to prevent re-distribution.
Companies that trust their customers are rare. I'm not willing to abuse that trust. Otherwise, crap like Pressplay and Rhapsody will be all that's left.
furhturnet (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:scene.org (Score:1, Insightful)
Not only that, but there is a ton of music and art out there on scene.org as well..
Re:ADUni has about 150 Gigs of data (Score:2, Insightful)
-heather
(ADUni webmaster)
Debian Mirror (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't think there's an easier and faster way to fill up approximately 80 GB of your disk than putting a full Debian repository on it... (trust me - I should know; I just had to throw a few arches out of our local mirror as the 80 gig partition we've got reserved for it was 99% full... and that's without mirroring potato...)
Now all we need is a P2P-method for apt... *g*
Oh yeah, throw in a few CD images of Debian (or some other Linux distro) and you'll fill up your drive in no time...
np: The Orb - Ubiquity (Orblivion)