Very creative and cool! Thanks!

A super job ! I'm happy to see it finished ! Well done Sophie-David it will be a pleasure to get them in my game ! Thank you a lot for all your work on it !!

Love this! Going to download it as soon as I'm not to tired to install it ;-P Already have custom TV for the music channel but this is soo much better

Superbly done! Thanks! I'm going to be turning my sims into TV addicts, lol.

Wow! What an amazingly detailed and professional project!

I've tried to download the movies from Keepmyfile. I click download and it said download will start in 10 seconds. After 2 min. download never starts. I registered to see if that was the problem, but I got the same result. Is there a step I'm missing?

When I go to KeepMyFile, it says "Your download will start in 10 seconds," and then nothing ever happens. Is there something special we need to do in order to make this work?

Well...I guess MTS2 has changed their policy on copy-righted movies. Does this mean we can start uploading music videos and short movie and tv intros? It's the same thing as this. This is just a sugar coated version of what we had to take down last year.

Wow, wow, and more wow. Outstanding!

"Copyright Notice

American movie trailers produced prior to 1964 are now in the public domain in the United States, as are still images taken from these trailers."

I think that means it's freely distributable. There shouldn't be a conflict with MTS2's upload policy, right?

A very good idea and a hard piece of work(I suppose) I´m very impressed! Thanks,

Massive addition to the game! I'm really impressed. Thank you and ciao

Thanks a bunch for all your hard work! :-) But like a couple other people mentioned, I had trouble downloading the actual movie files as well....

This is wonderful! Thank you very much.

I am having the same problem as stated above in downloading any of the movies from keepmyfile.com. If anyone can shed any light on how to get these, I have tried quite a few times. Maybe the site is just too busy. Will try again and let you know if I am successful.

My apologies about the problems with KeepMyFile! Nothing special is required - after you click on the button the download should start in ten seconds while they serve you an advertisement. Of course I did test this out and it was working two days ago. Yes, it could be a weekend volume problem. Has anyone been succesful with them today? I have just posted a query to their forum - at least they have a forum!

This is the second host I tried - the first one pulled the plug on their whole operation before my project was complete. Maybe I scared them off!

I will post here again as soon as this problem is resolved. If anyone has a good suggestion for an alternate free file host I am would be interested!

fileden.com.....just remember your pasword. They will keep you on file forever. Really!

American movie trailers made prior to 1964 did not carry a copyright notice and are not merely free distributable but actually in the public domain. The US copyright laws have been changed at least twice since that time and video works no longer need a specific copyright notice on them in order to be copyrighted.

The other works that you mention typically would be copyrighted, especially music videos since as far as I know there were few if any music videos made prior to 1964. Some old movie shorts may have lapsed into the public domain, but only if the copyright owners had neglected to renew their copyright. All movies released prior to 1923 are public domain, but the majority of movies released since then are copyrighted, except for cases where the copyright term lapsed and the copyright holder failed to renew copyright - and except of course for those works that were never copyrighted or are freely distributable, such as many works of the US Government.

A moderator can speak to your question as far as MTS2 hosting videos. Personally I would not expect MTS2 to do so, and I would rather their bandwidth be reserved for unique Sims content. I understand that they may allow some Sims 2 videos, but only on a case by case basis. As you may have noticed, these classic videos with human actors are all hosted offsite.

Thanks for the great tip, simsational - and your tip is simsational! I like fileden better already - its too bad they weren't mentioned on the freehost review page I was using.

For those who may be waiting, the Silver Screen group is already available for download...

They're nice, but you should have done a Simlish dub, especially since we don't know whether Sim kids are taught about different languages or not.

(filler...kind of)

Like most Europeans, Sims are taught one or more second languages at an early age. If you notice the EA/Maxis bulletin board in University, all the advertising is actually in English. As is the case in many parts of the world, I suspect that English is the commercial patois, but the native tongue is used in social contexts that require a bit more subtlety and refinement.

My apologies again for the rough start, but thank you for all the warm encouragement in spite of it all!

All the videos are now transferred to FileDen as a short term measure. This is not really a workable solution in the longer term because FileDen has a monthly bandwidth limit of only 5.0 GB. If twenty users were to download the whole 250 MB of files, then the bandwidth would be gone for the remainder of the 30 days.

A wonderful and effortful contribution to the contest!
I had the same download problem with the original host, so was truly grateful that there is an alternative download site.
However... now instead of the endless ten second wait, I get an error message from QuickTime and then see a grey bar apparently playing an invisible film clip. Do I need a different program to access this download, and why am I not getting an option to save the file?
Repeat - this is a great project and I hope to make use of it soon.
Thanks!

I hope this is a simple one! Are you right clicking the file link, then selecting "Save Target As..." ? Otherwise, if you just left click on the file then your default multimedia player will immediately start to play it.

SHOULD HAVE? She put in all this work, and you're saying she should have done more? Sheesh. No wonder creators leave the community. Let's show a little gratitude, huh?