A place for everybody that only share and download legal free files (meaning open source apps, freeware, Creative Commons licensed images/pictures/videos).
One use could be an easy way to tell others about new apps they've found - just add the installer with an descriptive file name, and your friends can try it out (legally!).
The obvious uses are of course sharing videos that are cool and free music.
What do you share?
This could be good. Perhaps some sort of advanced search to only display freeware and such so that if anyone is worried about sharing the wrong stuff they won't have to worry so much anymore. There are quite a few FREE things out there that are awesome now days. Lots of people are getting to understand that free stuff is all some can afford and so you see companies making a free version more often. This idea could sprout and grow I think.
eh... http://www.download.com?
@morr: <sarcasm>Oh, so download.com have my nature photos that I've taken myself on their site and all those fun home videos? Wow, now I got to go there and look for awesome stuff!<sarcasm>
This is for all that small stuff like home made open source software shared with friends, your own photos and videos, maps you've made for games, addons and items for games, etc...
Everything you usually don't find websites for that would host it all for you.
Are you comfortable with using Imageshack.us for sharing your +1000 vacation photos, or do you prefer to put it in a folder?
It's for the kinds of things you don't want to upload to various hosting sites where you get various URL's to remember - and the storage is often limited as well as the downloads.
Oneswarm use torrents - just use your usual IM (MSN/WinLive Messenger, GTalk, Yahoo chat, etc.) to make sure you both are online in initial download, then your friend will be able to share as well when you are offline.
It's perfect for all those other stuff.
No more interest than this!? Lolzorz...
I really hope that more people care. I'm going to try to promote this thread in various ways now.
Oh yes I'm in!
Feel free to describe what you have to share.
Software installers, source code, movies, music, whatever.
Just remember that it have to be free AND legal!
Legal sharing is boring :P
Sur, for now it is mostly gPL lincensed mac stuff also available on the net, but I belive, if enough people use this it would be easier to get it by this method than searching the net.
sHNe: Do you think it's cool to break the law? ;)
Natanael_L:
sHNe: Do you think it's cool to break the law? ;)
Cue bad 80s metal reference. ;)
Feel free to describe what you have to share.
A four hour epic home movie of me and my friends in Yosemite, Vegas, Grand Canyon, etc.
My old band's music.
Radio interviews from an old web site I ran with a friend.
I guess the problem is, nobody even knows it exists except me! But it's not like I'd want to promote it anyway--I think the only reason I've been making it available is because it took so much work to make--as if it deserves to be shared or something. ;)
P.S.: In fact, I probably don't have the absolute right to share these things: my friends, former bandmates, and interview participants would probably not want this stuff online!
tordman: Hehehe... Maybe you should go through it and see what you can share?
And anything that already has been online ("Radio interviews from an old web site I ran with a friend") are probably hard to complain at. ;)
It's still better than nothing.
And for everybody sharing your own pictures, etc, that you want to use Creative Commons licenses on - put the "license name" (such as "CC-By") in the name, and you might want to put the license version "logo" on it.
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