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November 9, 2006 2:36 PM

What's a good free, semi-anonymous Web hosting service that isn't quick to take down content? I want to post some satirical artwork I created, but not get canned because of some overreactive corporate legal department. I've heard Dutch sites are good for this. Any thoughts? And does Google do a good job indexing free servers?
posted by hodyoaten to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

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posted by Doofus Magoo at 3:22 PM on November 9, 2006

Ive seen plenty of dubious content on blogger acounts. As long as its just satiriacal and not illegal. I cant see them pulling it.
posted by gergtreble at 4:04 PM on November 9, 2006

Hi hodyoaten: what's the nature of the artwork (e.g. political)? How big are the files?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:13 PM on November 9, 2006

I have a nearlyfreespeech account. I put $10 in it at the beginning of summer, and I recently got the $5 "account low" warning. If you're not getting much traffic, they're effectively free.
posted by Leon at 5:59 PM on November 9, 2006

put it on blogspot.com and see how u go
posted by edtut at 2:54 AM on November 10, 2006

Are you just talking about an image-hosting service or a full web-hosting? There are quite a few places to post images where anything goes. I use Fileanchor which unfortunately seems to be down right now.
posted by JJ86 at 6:08 AM on November 10, 2006

I'm looking for something too, for my mp3 blog. Any recommendations for media file hosting? I was using ezarchive.com but they changed their whole deal and now they appear to be blowing it.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 8:10 PM on November 22, 2006