clips section and its future

Ladies and Gents, we've got a serious problem with our clip section, as you may have noticed already. Since honesty.com started charging serious money for hosting our clips, we haven't found a replacement yet. What do we need?

We badly need an ftp server where we can upload and store our clips, if only for a limited span of time. This server must be hosted at a provider able to deal with an enormous amount of bandwidth (as a complete computer ignorant, I know nothing about any figures), and it has to do it FOR FREE! The bandwidth excess broke down this forum repeatedly with the traffic at the now-closed Archives, and Jeff has figured out that providing the necessary bandwidth would cost about $ 2000 a month! So we need to find either an extremely generous or an equally naïve internet host. Both are utterly rare.

There are many computer specialists in our circle, I know. Some of them might stumble over a possible host sooner or later. Or someone may know if Bill Gates is into tickling, too. We'd all solemnly promise to buy only Microsoft software in the future… Anyhow, I'm sure we can find an appropriate reward for the member who comes to rescue our clips section from its present coma!

BTW, Kathy has allowed me a glimpse into the clip for the new Realtickling video, and it is absolutely fantastic!!! But they, too, have the same problem, and we all may have to wait until a solution is found. So come on, folks, let's pool our efforts! Together, we can't be beaten! Ready, ready, GO!

Well, I'm not a computer genius, but did anybody ever check out the site www.kazaa.com ? It works kinda like napster, but they host video files as well. I don't know they're bandwidth, but I have friends who have been using it since napster got it's butt kicked in court. I'm not even sure of the legality of the site, but someone more knowledgeable should at least check it out for it's potential. Just my two cents....

Buried Treasue?

Hi all,

I don't know how organized this group is although the commitment to and management of this site for the benefit of the community is, to say the least, admirable. A couple of suggestions...

Given the level of traffic on this and Kathy's sites, surely SOMEONE would want to pay real money to advertise here. Conversely, what about an unsqueamish providor having this much additional traffic directed to their site (and its own advertisers) in exchange for the necessary bandwidth? I for one would be willing to click-through as much as my company's firewall would allow - MTP is off limits for example

Not to minimize the effort it would take to accomplish either of these and maybe you've already tried it.

Anyway, just a thought.

b_bad

Clip Postings

Thanks, slacker and b_badder, we'll check this out and keep you informed. Please keep on looking for solutions, all of you.