Is it just me or.....

[TicklingIsLife]

Is it just me or has this section really gone downhill??

 

[Dr|zzt]

agreed

i agree with that fully! theres used to be lots of amazing clips on here all the time.. but the only new messages are ones in reply to old posts.. perhaps we've seen them all ? 🙂

if thats the case and we are running out of media, then why not some reposts? i would be gald to also but i cant host the clips 🙁

Dr|zzt

 

[Haltickling]

Problems

You are right, this section has calmed down considerably, but it is a technical problem: There are no more free webhosts where members can load their clips up. Our old contact 'www.honesty.com' started to charge serious money for this quite a while ago.

With no space to load up clips, there are no clips for this forum, sorry! Please read the earlier discussions on this topic, and you'll see the problem about bandwidth and its costs.

All NEW ideas will be welcome and highly appreciated!

 

[Italtickler]

Re: Sever host

It's only an idea (bad or right), www.fortunecity.com

 

[Haltickling]

Thanks for the suggestion, Italtickler. The problem with fortune city: They allow only 1 GB of bandwidth per month, but the clips usually require 15-20 GB PER WEEK! Thus, each clip would only be up for a day or two, then the user's bandwidth is overextended.

 

[TicklingIsLife]

I know crosswinds.net is unlimited, but i dont know what their policies are.

 

[ticklehound]

Times are rough in this section. I hope we find some solution to hosting clips. I have a suggestion. Until now, most of us downloaded clips from one site at a time, from one place. I think we should act like a community and find ways to disseminate (i like this word; it sounds dirty) this media. Yahoo! Briefcase is one free tool available to anyone with a Yahoo ID. A few people download it first, who then pass it on to more people, etc. (kinda like Pay It Forward).
I know there are so many more clips out there we haven't seen yet. It would take some work, but it can be done.

Laters,

Hound

 

[TicklingIsLife]

How much space does TMF have on its server? how much is used

Along with the Pic of the Week, there should be a clip of the week (if possible)

 

[Myriads]

The TMF Server

Space is not the problem on the TMF Server. I have more space then I could ever hope to fill. I could store entire 60 minute videos on there.

The reason we can't use the TMF's server is <color=red>BANDWIDTH</color>. Let's say I put up a new 3 meg clip once per week. In a weeks time it will be downloaded about 2000 times. That's 6000 megs, or 6gig. That's for one clip, for one week. Over a month that would add up to about 24gig. Got an extra $100 or so to pay for the bandwidth? I don't. Wish we could host stuff but it's not possible. It would add up to thousands per month.

Myriads

 

[Anubis]

ITS TRUE! ITS DAMN TRUE!

Dude you are so right. When I first found this place, it was loaded with great clips. Now its like gone to hell. They removed more than 70% of the clips once on here because of some stupid whining from other companies that charge for the full videos. Big deal, its the net, people aren't going to pay for what is available free in one way or another. Honestly, I am disappointed in the way this forum has gone, but I'll do what I can to share my 650MB of clips with everyone.

The Great Anubis

 

[Ravis60]

is this a solurtion?

If you post he clip for a week and then remove it. wouldn't you get rid of the 6gb, that way you could post another one the next week.

 

[Sadistictickler]

I agree

It's a pity, but the clip section is more like skydiving. Maybe we should make something like warez (entire movies can be downloaded over there) so we don't have the bandwith problems. FTP server or whatever it's called. (I'm absolutely not an computer expert) That doesn't bring any bandwith problems... I don't know, but is it possible to create a internet company like honesty or yahoo, just 4 ourselves?

 

[pacattack]

Wow those are some good ideas sadistic, but i THINK that warez sites are really really illegal. i mean... i don't know if they illegal in general, or illigal for what content is on the page. i go to em now and then and get 500 dollar programs such as flash for free there. but i don't know if that idea crossed any of our minds, maybe we should look into this? ill look around and see what i can find out, whenever i have the time lol. cooking food for money.... ugh. cya later
~pacattack
a.k.a dnglvr

 

[Myriads]

Answering Ravis

The problem with bandwidth, is that it's a lot like, say... water. Once you pour it through your pipes it's gone.

So yes, I could put a clip up for a week and use 6Gig on it, but by taking it down, I won't recover that 6Gig's. It's been used, and I'll need to pay for it. And since I'd replace the old clip with a new one, we'd use another 6Gigs the next week... and so on, until after a month we'd have cycled 4 clips, and used the same 24Gigs.... And I'd still need $100 to pay for it 🙂

The failure of the 'free hoasting' model is what has made the difference in the clips and pictures on the site.

Remember. Almost every one of you out there probably has personal webspace with your AOL, Earthlink, or MSN account, where you could store things, and directly link to them here on the TMF. That's going to be the only way that most pictures are going to go up here. All of you fine users can put them in your own personal webspaces!

Myriads

 

[Shelper4]

Why don't we just do this...

I started a thread about this but it died out quickly. I don't see why we don't just post in the clips section something like: "Search Limewire for tickler435.mpg". And then you can simply share it on your machine whenever your online. There are many programs to do this: LimeWire, WinMX, Morpheus, (and I think BearShare, althought I've never used it). Then if everyone cooperated, the more poeple that downloaded the clip the easier it would be to get for other people. Just a suggestion that I think would work great, any of these programs can be downloaded (very small..most under 2 meg) in cnet.com or downloads.com or probably any other place.

 

[Sadistictickler]

Wow those are some good ideas sadistic, but i THINK that warez sites are really really illegal. i mean... i don't know if they illegal in general, or illigal for what content is on the page. i go to em now and then and get 500 dollar programs such as flash for free there. but i don't know if that idea crossed any of our minds, maybe we should look into this? ill look around and see what i can find out, whenever i have the time lol. cooking food for money.... ugh. cya later
~pacattack
a.k.a dnglvr

Yes, of course it is illegal. Companies don't like the fact that their product can be downloaded for free @ warez. But, they still DO exist, and haven't been wiped out, although some ppl would like that to happen. Why? Don't ask me. Is there a member of this forum that knows more about this? Plz respond because we need it.

 

[Ravis60]

A have an idea

Have you heard of a software called imesh, it's like napster only you can share any sort of file on it and it's not illegal. i've been using for some time now, it's sometimes slow but works fine.

Tell me what you think??

 

[Sadistictickler]

It's OK with me

Good idea raven. Where can you download it?

 

[nicklname]

Aimster is the shit

As in i find it to be most adequete out of all peer-to-peer napster rip offs.

I'm a busy man, hence my lack of posts on this board, however i feel i can contribute to the solution to this conundrum (i hope thats spelt right).

Simply download aimster from www.aimster.com and you will find many files by searching for tk or tickling . . . many people who frequent this board are already part of it.

I have morpheus, imesh and kaza and in my humble opinion aimster is the best for tk files . . . true sometimes you won't find that much but other times there can be a veritable wealth of tk media online.

My aimster name is bobthabuilder2099. Please support aimster and make it the TMF's second home rather than everyone choosing a different trading application and having tk files all over the joint. Thats my two cents worth . . .

 

[TicklingIsLife]

Can somebody tell me how to download tickling files on Aimster (im kinda lost)

 

[sadamski]

Yes, of course it is illegal. Companies don't like the fact that their product can be downloaded for free @ warez. But, they still DO exist, and haven't been wiped out, although some ppl would like that to happen. Why? Don't ask me. Is there a member of this forum that knows more about this? Plz respond because we need it.

Warez sites aren't wiped out because the people who run those sites are dilligent in re-uploading the illegal files whenever they get deleted. It is time consuming and requires technical knowledge to run a warez site. Nethertheless, the warez distribution model does work, and should be considered for the distribution of tickling clips.

I'll attempt to explain how it all works.

Warez is usually distributed via public FTP sites, free web hosting or IRC. Since FTP is most popular, I'll explain that first. I may write a follow up article on free web methods latter if there is interest.

FTP

There are millions of public FTP servers connected to the Internet. By public, I mean ones which allow anonymous login. That is, you login using the user name: anonymous and your e-mail as the password. Famous public FTP sites include ftp.cdrom.com and ftp.sunset.de.

Those sites are unsuitable for the distribution of illegal material since the contents of those FTPs are vigilantly monitored by the sites administrators because they are famous sites for downloading the latest shareware, patches, game demos etc. Login and see for yourself.

What warez people are looking for are public FTP sites that are less dilligently administered. For example, the little known out of the way FTP in Germany or Russia where the system admin only checks the server when it breaks down. The other requirement is that the site allows read and write permissions for anonymous users (so we can actually upload stuff to it).

Once found, they will upload the warez to it and advertise the sites address in popular pirate hangouts, inc IRC channels, vbulletin message boards etc.

How do we find these magic FTP sites? We use software called "scanners". These programs take a range of IP addresses and scan them for FTP sites. For example, I give a scanner the address range 200.1.1.1 - 200.1.255.255. That will scan all the IP addresses starting from 200.1.1.1 all the way till 200.1.255.255, and report on any FTP sites it finds. Once found, I have to manually check each site it finds and see if it is suitable for uploading. As you can imagine, thats 255 * 255 sites to scan. Imagine if the range was 200.1.1.1 - 200.255.255.255. Thats 255 * 255 * 255 sites to scan. It takes a long time. You'd usually leave have to leave scanners running over night.

In the world of warez, pubs (as public FTP sites good for uploading are known) are a valuable commodity and there are dedicated "pub scanners", people who do nothing but scan for pubs and post them in warez hangouts for others to upload to.

Please bear in mind though that this is all of dubious legallity. Effectively, warez people are hijacking FTP servers for their own ends and not paying the bandwidth bill. That gets paid by the poor owners of the FTP who have no idea their site is being abused in this way until the server logs start showing massive bandwidth ussage.

So for this model to work here, we need several members to become dedicated pub scanners. They could then post the IPs of the pubs they find and then the people who have clips can upload them to those sites.

 

[Ravis60]

let's do it

it's simple you can download imesh from download.com, and after you install it you can put your files in the shared directory, and then tell the members of the forum about it and they can go download it.
I suggest we get confirmation from the moderators and then start doing it on a big scale.
Then people can post the name of the file in the forum and then the rest can go get it from imesh.
Tell me what you think.