[Japo]

Yeah sounds good but the very moment I read the proposal I also heard "bandwidth" wihin my head. Okay we've just been delivered today and the site is working at decent speed again after an incredibly long time, but video is very demanding and problems could arise again in the future. Between clips in a yet again sluggish site and no clips I choose the latter. Plus I think Youtube or similar is perfect, also they don't delete clips that easily as far as I know. Consider that a server is not strained because of having a lot of data stored in disc, but because of the data being transferred simultaneously at a given moment. The bulk of the clips are watched intensely at first, and then when they've lost popularity it's not in Youtube's interest delete them either since they're not spending bandwidth.

Plus Youtube is a huge community with people hunting for clips just for the fun of it. Most won't ever know what abandonware is, but one day they come across a cool clip from Flashback or Transport Tycoon and they think it's too cool for school and end up in Abandonia. That couldn't actually happen if Ab hosted her own clips with her finite resources.