That's why creative commons is cool, cause they have free hosting for open liscensed mp3s. On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Mark Knecht hat gesagt: // Mark Knecht wrote: > > > In a related thought, I've wondered for a while where all of the Linux > > servers supporting most of the individually developed web pages, not the > > SourceForge stuff are. Are people paying for server space for these sites? > > My cable modem ISP won't let me run a web server out of my house. > > I do pay for my webspace, but only a little bit and I only am allowed > about 5 gig transfer a month for that. Austin's wonderful song, if > downloaded 2500 times, has created about 6.250 gigs of traffic. > Imagine what amounts it would be if he would be seriously slashdotted. > > On the other hand modern filesharing like bittorrent or soulseek > intends and does take the load off a single person's webserver. I > think a community bittorrent tracker only for open source music would > be cool. archive.org seems to have something like that in its free > music department. > > Lastly scene.org is a major player in this area or free music (and > art). I think they are in part sponsored by public money plus > commercial sponsors. > > Another example: The pure-data.org website was run privatly, but now > is in the hands of the austrian IEM institute. Linux music done with > Pd can be shared there, too, since shortly. See > http://pure-data.org/community/ (not much music available yet, though) > > ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ >
