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Re: digital hoarding

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc, Ivan Shmakov  <ivan@siamics.net> wrote:
>>       So, for me, the question is not whether to "hoard" or not, but
>>       how to contribute back to the effort of distributing whatever
>>       information I find valuable.  So far, BitTorrent seems the best
>>       option. 
> ...
>>       Were such torrents available, I would've considered joining ones
>>       for http://commons.wikimedia.org/, http://scene.org/, and Debian
> 
> I don't know what scene.org is, and it is apparently offline now.

files.scene.org is the main point. It's basically an FTP site with a
fancier web interface than most (as such I'd use ftp.scene.org).

> I've tried to use the torrent links at archive.org sometimes, and never
> found them to be working. Regular downloads it has to be. There's a ton
> of interesting stuff there. Yesterday I grabbed _Shame_, from Roger
> Corman and staring Shatner. Also titled _The Intruder_:
> 
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/
> https://archive.org/details/shame_
> 
> (Yes, the link ends in an underscore.)

I didn't know that they had full movies there. I've got to wonder
about whether it really is public domain though. Lots of stuff there
is uploaded as public domain and otherwise freely distributable when
in reality it isn't. I think IA just trust in the message on the
upload page that states that you should have permission to upload the
files, and only take things down if asked.

In practice I just assume that everything there that's in copyright
(a narrower set in Australia than in the US) is there illegally. For
movies, that means I won't download them. For obscure documentaries
and instructional films, it's pretty clear that the copyright holders
wouldn't really care about something they made in the 1950s. Lately
I've been downloading hoards of videos from the Perrisope Films
collection and slowly working my way though.

Some newer documentaries are actually kept, but hidden on the main
site and available via another website that appears to the casual
viewer to be unrelated. thoughtmaybe.com has all of its download
URLs (in the HTML) redirect to archive.org download servers.

> Today, I don't try too hard, but I also don't watch video in the
> browser, preferring to download with youtube-dl and then watch (and
> decide what to keep or discard after that).
> 
> Elijah
> ------
> mplayer is video watching tool of choice

I collect a batch in a folder on my laptop, then convert them all
to Xvid format and copy them over to a USB HDD connected to a hacked
Playstation 2 with an Xvid video player installed. From there I
slowly work my way though them and when I've seen them all, sort them
onto relevant categories before starting the conversion of the next
batch.

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