fun facts from the archive.

GNN.tv produced a get-out-the-vote Eminem video that they uploaded to
the Archive. While we have a gigabit connection to the Internet, even
that is being pounded by this movie.

At this rate, it is 150,000 videos a day (that is about 500Mbits/sec
between the US and the EU archives).

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?
collection=independent_news&collectionid=Mosh2

GNN.tv has taken up the Archive on its Home of the Commons offer. Our
offer is for material that broadly defined belongs in a library, and
that is free to share (say by using creative commons licenses), then
the Archive will provide:
* unlimited storage
* unlimited bandwidth (well, almost)
* forever
* for free.
GNN, as many others do, link directly to the file, so we are getting
10's of thousands of downloads just for that file, and the download
count does not show it (since they come from off site).

www.p2p-politics.org is another site that leverages the Archive and
even encourages people to upload new works, which have resulted in
hundreds of videos being hosted.

-brewster