Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 11:25:11 PM, LeanBackVids.com wrote: > In my opinion, there is nothing better than paid hosting. If planned > and maintained, you do not have to worry about about links going bad > since they live on a domain you own and control. As long as I > continue to renew my domain name, I can be certain that my video links > will be valid. Who knows what will happen to the free services. Of > course I wish them the best, but I would have no control if they went > dead or changed their linking structure.
But the other side of the coin is that if anything happens to you, and you stop paying for the paid service, all your media will just vanish. And this will happen. Even though the internet is relatively young, and has a young person's assumption of immortality, everyone who uses the internet _will_ die someday. And most of them will die before they want to or expect to. Do you have a will? Have you set up a trust fund to pay for hosting your content? Or would you prefer that it die with you? For all their faults, the free services do attempt to provide some solution for this problem. Archive.org, ibiblio, blip.tv and so on have as part of their stated mission to keep media available regardless of what happens to the original author. This topic may be morbid, but ignoring it will not make it go away. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
