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| palito Diglot Newbie United States Joined 7215 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: French, English | Message 41 of 237 20 March 2005 at 4:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe the files could be distributed as torrents?. It is a cheaper way to distribute files. Edited by palito on 20 March 2005 at 4:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zack Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 7217 days ago 122 posts - 127 votes  Speaks: German*, English, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 42 of 237 20 March 2005 at 9:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Re .zip: Mp3 is already a compressed format, so that zipping the files would not help size-wise. But if there are many small mp3-files makig up a single lesson/unit, it may still be good to combine them into a single archive for easier downloading.
Re bandwith (and storage-space): Since I have never put up a website that wasn't on my university-account, I'm not sure about the cost involved. But I could imagine that it costs to have additional storage-space and bandwidth for distributing digitized language-programs. If no free and efficient hosting-solution can be found, one possibility would be that we pool the cost by attaching a small download-fee per megabyte. As far as I know there are various cheap ways for processing such micro-payments. This would be next to no financial burden on people who want to download the programs and it would spread the cost of making them publicly available across the language learning community. Just an idea. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marcus Groupie Australia Joined 7219 days ago 55 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish | Message 43 of 237 20 March 2005 at 9:53am | IP Logged | ||
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This sounds like a great idea everyone, I'd love to get my hands on some FSI programs.
As some people have said, BitTorrent is by far the best way to share these files. Having Francois host them for us to download would cost the poor guy a fortune. BitTorrent is really easy to use and its not difficult to create a torrent. For those who havent used it before: First go here http://www.bittorrent.com/ and install BitTorrent. I also find it useful to use a program to track my torrents. I use Azureus: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ I'd love to help, but I dont really know anything about digitizing audio and I dont have any FSI tapes. [edit] Edited by Malcolm on 21 March 2005 at 6:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zack Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 7217 days ago 122 posts - 127 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 44 of 237 20 March 2005 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Marcus,
Thanks for the offer, but I think it would be better for the forum if we restricted ourselves to share public-domain programs (like FSI). Otherwise we could (justifiably) get into all sorts of legal trouble ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marcus Groupie Australia Joined 7219 days ago 55 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish | Message 45 of 237 20 March 2005 at 11:21am | IP Logged | ||
Ahhhh, I didn't realise FSI was in the public domain. I just assumed Francois had a rather liberal stance when it came to file-sharing. I think I'll edit my above post. Thanks for the heads-up Zack. Edited by Malcolm on 21 March 2005 at 6:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7384 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 46 of 237 20 March 2005 at 11:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I confirm that this site will never host pirate files. I am quite surprised anybody would have understood that this was our intention.
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| Marcus Groupie Australia Joined 7219 days ago 55 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish | Message 47 of 237 20 March 2005 at 11:47am | IP Logged | ||
I think what threw me with the FSI was that they are so expensive ($245+ at Audioforum) I naturally assumed they were not in the public domain. Plus, pirating is so widespread these days it didn't really seem strange to me. I completely understand your position because you have increased liability. However, as an individual, I occasionally give friends pimsleur programs and because I never make any money on it and I'm in favor of the liberalisation of information, I don't consider it morally questionable. Its a fine line though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Polyglot2005 Senior Member United States Joined 7196 days ago 184 posts - 185 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 48 of 237 21 March 2005 at 12:48am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a great idea. The FSI programs are comprehensive. However I have heard that some of the programs are dated. I am also interested in the Chinese tapes that you have. I will try to help in any way I can. Edited by Polyglot2005 on 21 March 2005 at 2:47am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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