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Win Free Web Hosting!

I recently came across a site called Web Cosmo Forums which is giving out free hosting plans to its top two posters.  The site is a webmaster forum, so their will be plenty of new things for you to learn there, and you can share things that you already know.  The forum isn’t currently extremely active, so you could probably easily become one of the forum’s top posters.

What you Could Win:

Top Poster Prize:
Baby Plan from hostGator.com
Linux hosting
Disk Space 600GB, Bandwidth 6000GB, CPanel, 1 Domain, Unlimited FTP,
Site builder, Unlimited email accounts, Unlimited MySql, PHP, 99.9% Uptime guarantee and more.

Second Top Poster Prize:
Hatchling Plan from hostGator.com
Linux hosting
Disk Space 350GB, Bandwidth 3000GB, CPanel, 1 Domain, Unlimited FTP,
Site builder, Unlimited email accounts, Unlimited MySql, PHP, 99.9% Uptime guarantee and more.

Of course there are also a few rules to the contest as well.

• The contest starts today May 20th 12AM GMT and ends 19th 12PM GMT
• You must have made at least 150 posts during the contest period
• Posts must be meaningful, and about a sentence or longer in length.  Posts also must be relevant to the topic
• If you don’t want web hosting, you will get an equal amount of money via paypal.

I think that this contest is a great oppurtunity to make a bit of extra money, learn something about being a webmaster, and then… if you win, you can use your new knowledge working on a website!  You can find out more about the oppurtunity here.

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Are Anime Streaming Sites Legal?

It’s been brought to my attention recently the growing controversy over sites that stream anime. I don’t mean sites like youtube, veoh, or etc… I mean sites like Otaku Theater which embed the videos on the site, so people can watch withing having to search for the videos. Many people don’t have any problems at all with these kinds of sites, but there are those who question the legality.

Many of these sites have disclaimers, stating that since the content is hosted on another web server, they aren’t at fault for showing it to other people. I immediately agreed with that theory because it seemed perfectly reasonable. I know that sites like youtube are responsible for finding user submitted copyright infringing material, and the general public isn’t responsible for knowing exactly what is wrong and right. Many kids browse the internet and have no idea that they are taking away from the profits of the original creators of the cartoons.

Plus this is the internet after all, many websites that do allow the viewing of anime are hosted in countries where there are no laws against it. So if the creators ask them to take down their show, the owner of the website can just tell them off.

I don’t have any problem with people grouping together anime they’ve found on other websites and showing other people. Since the sites that host the videos are responsible, and quite good at removing anime and other copyrighted material from their sites, streaming video site owners have plenty of work replacing broken links and non-working videos. So, I think that streaming sites are fine, video hosting websites should keep on removing copyrighted content, or

anime owners should somehow insert ads into their shows, and release them via the web in the first place!

This could probably work, and save them a bunch of money. Since people are always going to host download, and streaming websites… might as well make those have commercials. (this is just a suggestion though… not dictating what people should do. )

Tags: anime, cartoon, hosting, Legal, manga, Sites, streaming, video