I think fedora needs...
Eric Feldhusen
efeldhusen at chartermi.net
Mon Dec 15 14:15:29 UTC 2003
Warren Togami wrote:
> Thierry Sayegh wrote:
>>> ever heard about eMule or Xmule ?
>>> the latest i have tracked is: xmule-1.6.1.tar.bz2 (dunnow if in the
>>> meanwhile someone did a FC rpm like MDK or SuSE one's)
>
> IIRC the author of xmule was taken down when some entity invoked the
> DMCA, and he is currently in a lot of legal trouble. I read this off of
> some blog somewhere so I don't know much about the accuracy of this nor
> the current status.
>
> IANAL, but I believe it would be a lot easier to make a clear case that
> bittorrent is used primarily by our community for distributing
> legitimate content like ISO images. It would be a lot less easy to show
> that those other P2P clients are exist primarily for legitimate uses. I
> recall hearing the phrase "intent matters" often on these lists, and I
> believe that would apply in this case.
Agreed. I first heard of BitTorrent for beta iso images of Mandrake.
IMHO, it's a p2p idea that can be shown it's good for the internet
community. It reduces the network traffic on central servers while
still providing content.
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