From: Brook Hinton (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Dec 29 2009 - 11:30:04 PST
Oh, and yes, archive.org, absolutely.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Brook Hinton <email suppressed> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
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>> Nicholas O'Brien
>> doubleunderscore.net
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