Let me know how much money you would need to start up such a service. Assuming such a site would be subject to the European copyrights, I have plenty of broadcast material, still covered by US copyrights, that I would be happy to make available at no charge. Karl D P Ingram <[log in to unmask]> wrote: On 16 maj 2007, at 19.16, Karl Miller wrote: Could there be scope for some form of Bittorrent server/service for clearly out of copyright material. Maybe a small fee for membership to cover bandwidth/hosting and then maybe a certain number of members agree to host a certain amount of tracks. After the initial "jump" factor when people want to grab the material, I suspect it would calm down unless new members come in, thus reducing overall bandwidth. I could perhaps assist with this in conjunction with my fall database project but it would certainly crave some additional resource and assistance as I've never been an administrator on a Bittorrent service. But the differing "copyright" laws might need to be considered as well. Darren > Don Cox wrote: > > I wrote: > *** what need would a person have to maintain their own > collection or file, whether it be audio or anything else? assuming > that we had a good navigation tool for the information stream and > low cost access. > > Don replies: > > ***Reliability. > > ***I have too many experiences of servers failing to want to rely > on some company to store the music I want to listen to. And what > happens when they decide to clear out all the recordings that > "nobody" (ie you and I) listens to? > > I would agree and had't really thought about that aspect. So, I > wonder, what are we doing by placing so much trust in google? It > seems to me to be very dangerous. > > Karl > > --- Darren Ingram (darren at ingram.fi / www.ingram.fi) Provider of many things including research, media, innovation and consultancy services. 040 738 5292 / +358 40 738 5292 "Insert pointless, humo(u)rless quotation and ASCII art here" "Insert lengthy, boring and meaningless corporate and copyright disclaimer here"