From way back in the days when newsgroups and the Internet first started, I, probably like many others at the time, saved anything I could find which was wet, messy or muddy related.
The photos and (if you were lucky) clips were mostly small, grainy or blocky etc, probably down to the technology used at the time.plus they were free, yet sometimes still took a while to download.who remembers maxing out their 33.5k modem

Over the years I started getting picky on what I saved, and for the last few years I have saved very little.

I now find myself thinking how I never look at any of it so what's the point of keeping it, and I'm now thinking of removing everything WAM related from my hard drive & backup drive altogether.

While much of it will probably be known to most, some of it will be so old that I think many of you out there who I would refer to as younger members of our little community, will likely have never seen some of it before.people aged around 20 or so now will have just been born as I started saving stuff!!

The file size of these clips & pics is mostly small compared to what's on the go these days, the collection totals 'only' about 19 or 20gb.

I was thinking, it would be nice if I could somehow have them online somewhere for a while, so that anybody who wanted could have a look or save any of it before it goes into the ether forever.

I'm not up to speed these days with what's available re online storage/hosting etc, who allows wam related material and who doesn't...what it might cost, or are there free options?
...so I'm asking for opinions on how best to do this, if it's possible at all.

I don't think I want to go fancy and start showing what's there, more like zipping a load of stuff into files of say 1gb each, or whatever the hosts let you away with1gb doesn't strike me as very big these days, and you just download them, keep what you want and bin what you don't.

Some of it is from names like Josie, Custardy Kate, Katey (she was amazing in what she did), Katmint, Lil tramp, Pimpon, Sticky Vicki, Susybest, Watergirl, Wetpaar.to name but a few....added a couple of pics to keep it on-topic.

Over the years I've bought some stuff from producers but it goes without saying that I'll not be including that material.everything I'm talking about was freely available on the net at the time.

So what do you think Guys & Gals?

I think this is a great idea! Thanks for offering to do it!

I LOVED Custardy Kate, and only have a few pics of her! I was very glad to hear that you have some pics of her! :lovestruck:

I hope that it works out for you to do this!

Norman

This is an intriguing offer. Very much like a Wam-Based Time Capsule.

I'd love to browse through these older files and see what Gems there might be awaiting to be unearthed.

I have collected tons of various kinds of data over the years, and even now struggle with the idea of what to do with it all. I guess I'm a data hoarder in that I'm more apt to buy a new HDD to fill, over deleting programs and files I haven't looked at in more than 15 years.

Still It's nice to know that you have it I guess.

Hi darret. I can store it all on my site if you like as zipped files people can download. You can send up to 2gb at a time via sites that deal with big files like wetransfer.com

send to candycustardwam@gmail.com and I'll get them sorted and uploaded

^ Because Candy is a badass.

Awesome! I'm particularly interested if there are any involving leather or pvc.

Jose back catalog.... yes please. That would bring a smile to me... some of my early stuff that

Jose back catalog.... yes please. That would bring a smile to me... some of my early stuff that

Jose back catalog.... yes please. That would bring a smile to me... some of my early stuff that

Cool idea, though I'd suggest a couple of caveats:

Be aware that the UK age of consent for fetish modelling changed in the late 90s from 16 to 18. So some scenes (and their promos) distributed quite legally by UK producers in the mid 90s are potentially no longer legal to posses if any of the models were under 18.

Allowing for the above, while promo pics from commercial sites are pretty much fair game, if I was doing it I'd weed out all amateur (non commercial, free sites) stuff. There used to be free sites featuring people's friends and girlfriends, in many cases there probably weren't any model releases signed, and those people may have moved on a lot in their lives since then - some of them might not appreciate having their old photos that they thought safely lost to time suddenly republished to a whole new audience. Stuff from commercial producers should be fine, as model releases will (or certainly should) have been done.

Not trying to be a party pooper but personally as someone who's been on-line for twenty years, I've seen how dramatically things have changed. Times were I'd post to Usenet with merry abandon, get involved in huge flame wars, back then it was the Wild West, we posted whatever we liked and ranted at everyone on every subject imaginable, and spent hours crafting the finest insults we could hurl. In contrast now, every time I post anywhere on line, I back right up and double check that all my facts can be confirmed, that nothing could be taken as an insult or offend anyone. Basically the 'net grew up. It's probably better for more people now, but hell I sometimes miss the old days!

Thanks all for the replies.

Moose,
I remember my modem going down to 14.4k on occasion but I never got involved in copy & pasting raw code, lol.

Steve 892,
There will likely be the odd pic of leather or pvc.

DM1, caveats noted. I'll check as much as I can, but I don't think there will be any under 18, as I would likely have avoided saving anything around that age anyway 'just in case'.
Re model releases, the way I think this will work is that people will download zipped files then open them from their computer, so they aren't really being published on the net.

I'm emailing Candy Custard re her offer and I'll post info once there's something to get.

CAUTION: It's nice of your to want to share....BUT...I would check with the "commercial producers" before posting to any cloud or shared server...Dungeon master's comment could be construed as giving a 'green light' to posting/uploading commercial producer files....But this should NOT be assumed (especially if anything of mine -- artshtick.com) ...Pictures are fine (UNLESS they are from a NO LONGER FOR SALE VIDEO, again, check with the producers!!!)....but no GIFs or short video clips (without the producers permission)...I hope this is clear.

Fair enough! Just wanted to be sure you knew about it - sort of thing that could all too easily catch someone out.


Sorry, but I'm afraid that's completely wrong. Doesn't matter if displayed as clickable images or wrapped up in compressed files, still counts as publication - else we'd all be downloading zipped versions of Hollywood movies and telling the RIAA to go take a running jump (ideally, their most attractive representatives of our preference, in ultra-smart business suits, into a pool of liquid mud, but that's by the by ). Seriously though - if you make something available, in any format, legally you are publishing it. TBH the risk is probably infinitesimally small, just be aware it's there. Best bet is probably to include some text on the download page that says something like "if you are featured in any of these files and want to be removed, email the details to user@domain and we'll take those images out of the files", or something like that. So it's clear you're willing to respond to anyone who objects.


Absolutely not - Darret had already made clear he was only talking about freebie promos, not anything from inside member sites or download stores. Trust me, I hate pirates as much as you do, they threaten all of our abilities to make more content for people.

All noted DM1, and no problem - will check files over myself and include necessary precautions and easy contact in case anything needs taking down.

...damnit.