Local TED Mirror
Submitted by charlvn on Thu, 21/01/2010 - 22:40.
One of the most fantastic collections of educational and inspirational videos in the world is located at TED.com. The videos are Creative Commons licensed which means they can be freely copied and distributed. There is also an RSS feed on the site containing direct links to the various videos which means they can be downloaded and mirrored easily.
Having a locally hosted (official or unofficial) mirror of TED videos would mean South Africans using local-only ADSL can get access to these videos which, due to international bandwidth limitations, would normally be too expensive to download for many. It would also save on international bandwidth as the videos only have to be brought into the country once and can then be distributed locally.
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l2netstat. most of ted.com
l2netstat.
most of ted.com is akamai'd.
Any progress? On a local
Any progress? On a local mirror? This would be fantastic! These talks are really worthwhile, but represent a nontrivial expense (which is contrary to their free and open mission).
Why not talk to TED? Write
Why not talk to TED? Write to them and ask them if they would set up a mirror site? there are legal issues involved and lets not skirt them!
torrents aside... From an
torrents aside...
From an ISLabs perspective we'd be keen to get involved with a mirror like this, just need to make some sense out of any potential issues - disk space, curatorship, etc.
We'll be asking around to see if we can make this happen.
cheers
Ian
Awesome, thanks Ian!
Awesome, thanks Ian!
The problem i have with
The problem i have with torrent farms is that some of the smaller isp's especially wireless ones make it as hard as possible to make use of torrents, so unless you know how to get around the blockage you wont be able to download it at all, and if you get download to work the Tracker wont pick you up.
One major problem is people
One major problem is people who don't know how to configure port forwarding on their routers when they are on NATed networks (like which is common with ADSL nowadays).
Are you sure? I used Vodacom
Are you sure? I used Vodacom 3G to torrent at pretty respectable speeds before. But then I was using Ubuntu (Transmission), not Windows - maybe give linux a shot?
Yeah but Vodacom is charging
Yeah but Vodacom is charging per MB; I think some of the WISPs are providing so-called "uncapped" services at very low rates.
Any reason why you can't
Any reason why you can't just set up a torrent farm for TED? It's not as if the tracker would cost that much to host, plus the people with uncapped probably wouldn't mind adding to the archive.
I'm all for P2P and
I'm all for P2P and torrenting but then we need to get a proper tracker up with only legal content. GreenLab eventually closed down due to it being plagued with warez and pirated movies/music.