Hey Ian - just stick it on a terabyte USB external hard drive, invest in some bubble wrap and a strong cardboard box, and organise a mailing loop... Then folk can copy what they want and post it onto the next user
Bit lo-tech, I know, but given broadband speeds in some parts of the country, probably quicker than Bit Torrenting it. :-) Cheers, Rich the Luddite (Or have I missed the point?) On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ian Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow thanks guys. > > I don't want to get into a discussion about the footage per-se because that's > not the important thing. > > So to answer the points about the packaging. I didn't know Tar was just a way > to pack together files with no compression. Now tar.gz makes sense to me :) > > The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of things > like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music, other metadata pieces, etc. We're not > just talking a collection of video files. I guess we're also thinking about > the 5% of the audience who would actually do a remix with the raw project > files. This would be on going rather that a one off, so we need the ability > to handle everything from low rez 3gp files to ultra high rez animations at > stupid frame rates > > Delivery, > > Seems BitTorrent, P2Pnext (tribler) and the internet archive are the best > solutions by a long way. I did speak to people about how we pass footage > around internally and the answer was via hard drives. There was some thought > in the past about having drop off points in major cities where you can get > all the footage in one go by bringing your 1TB drive for example. Sneakernet, > or what ever they now call it. > > Licensing, > > I think we'll use something like CC-BY-NC (although I totally understand the > arguments against NC, Dave) CC-BY-NC-SA is tempting due to the nature of the > content. I do wonder how we keep the licence in tack even when the assets are > broken up and reused? Maybe we should be looking into watermarking or some > adobe xmp type system? This would also be useful for figuring out reach. > > Lots to think about... But once I got the footage cleared and sorted you guys > will be first to know. We're planning to be as open as possible about the > whole experience. > > Ian Forrester > > This e-mail is: [] private; [x] ask first; [] bloggable > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage > Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ > email: [email protected] > work: +44 (0)2080083965 > mob: +44 (0)7711913293 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Tonge > Sent: 19 January 2009 23:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] If you had a ton of content to freely distribute > > +1 BitTorrent > +1 MP4 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
