From: Brook Hinton (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Dec 29 2009 - 11:28:30 PST
You're in a bit of a bind even with self-hosting due to the explicit content
- most affordable hosting services ban sexually explicit material due to
concerns over the hyperclickery of the pornminded bringing down their
servers.
Self-host the less explicit stuff using a web hosting service such as
Dreamhost with generous bandwidth allowances. If the service has a problem
with the more explicit stuff, use links on your site to torrents or a
file-sharing service like Rapidshare for that material. And definitely post
the within-TOS stuff to Vimeo, Blip, maybe YouTube if it seems worthwhile,
just for the community/exposure aspect.
Self-hosting means no re-encoding and (usually) much faster download speeds.
YouTube/Vimeo etc. mean lower quality but wide exposure. If you can handle
the lower quality, no reason not to do both.
Brook
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Jason Boughton <email suppressed> wrote:
> Thanks for the tips - if things dont work out with a flash host I will
> certainly host myself, in which case I might ask for more advice, you bet...
>
> thanks again,
>
> Jason
>
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Nicholas O'Brien wrote:
>
> Vimeo has worked for me, sometimes upload times take a long time w/o a Pro
> account. I usually find Vimeo to pretty liberal and willing to turn a
> "blind-eye" to somewhat iffy content (artist sympathetic)
>
> Or you could also use blip.tv they seems pretty artists sympathetic, but
> I'm not so sure how their compression fairs (although I've seen nicely
> compressed thing using their service). You could just embed them as
> quicktime and host them on a server somewhere. If you want some advise on
> hosting/quicktime I can help out.
>
> best
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jason Boughton <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a hosting service, along the lines of Youtube, for a few
>> video art pieces for my website. The main reasons Youtube wont work is that
>> they are longer (15 min. +), sometimes quite sexually explicit (there's a
>> very very long watersports shot in one video...) and almost entirely found
>> footage. I might be able to argue fair use as far as the appropriated
>> material goes, but the length and perv factor, I don't think so. I think I'd
>> have the same problem with Vimeo, but I'm not sure - does anyone use that
>> service? Any other suggestions? Is there one that is particularly
>> sympathetic to the sort of production Frameworkers do?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
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> Nicholas O'Brien
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> __________________________________________________________________ For info
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