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Free Speech Hosting: 11 Web Hosts That Won’t Dump You at the First Sign of Controversy | Dedicated Hosting Guide

The Internet, once the last bastion of truly free speech, is slowly being overrun by lawyers and government officials the world over. Certainly, there are criminals who need to be apprehended for their online exploits, but those of us who are merely exercising our first amendment right should feel protected. Sadly, many mainstream Web hosts will drop your site as soon as you attract the smallest amount of opposition. They are, after all, intimidated by the threat of losing money in a lawsuit. Luckily, there are still a few brave Web hosting companies that cherish free speech and that will stand behind your site. Below, we have listed 11 hosts that won’t dump you at the first sign of controversy.

(From the EFF.)

Not for everybody -- they tend to run a little on the expensive side compared to others I've seen. But if you're controversial...

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.