Wondering where to host your big files?

[mdlbear]

ourmedia.org

We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.

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The idea is pretty simple: People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff for free on Ourmedia's servers forever, as long as they're willing to share their works with a global audience.

Ourmedia's goal is to expose, advance and preserve digital creativity at the grassroots level. The site serves as a central gathering spot where professionals and amateurs come together to share works, offer tips and tutorials, and interact in a combination community space and virtual library that will preserve these works for future generations. We want to enable people anywhere in the world to tap into this rich repository of media and create image albums, movie and music jukeboxes and more.

They offer a selection of common licenses, including CC, GPL, and MPL. Since my audio files are all CC-licensed (by-nc-sa, if you're interested -- that's the share-alike, non-commercial license that might as well be called the "filk-friendly" license), this looks like a perfect fit for me. It's not really a problem at the moment, since all I have on my site is a dozen or so oggs and I'm not exactly what you'd call wildly popular, but I suppose that could change when my album comes out (Real Soon Now), or if I decide to put up FLAC or MP3 files along with the oggs.

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

What about the Internet Archive? they'll post CC-licensed works.

[mdlbear]

Ourmedia is basically a community site layered on top of the Internet Archive, which they use as a back end for storage.