suggestions

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:43, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> Le mar 22/07/2003 à 08:02, Pekka Savola a écrit :
> > On 22 Jul 2003, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> > > * Add bittorrent because it's the best way to grab RedHat Linux.
> > 
> > It's also a best way to grab something else, which may be a good enough 
> > reason to avoid getting to be a target of certain legal activities.
> 
> Bittorrent is not gnutella or edonkey.
> 
> As i know, to use bittorrent to widely share some files you need a
> .torrent file publicly available. And nobody want to put a porn.torrent
> or a win2003.torrent file in his home page.

No they generally break into someone elses server and put the .torrent
file there. Most of the torrent traffic I have seen this summer has been
for versions of the Hulk Movie, and other super pirated crap. The
legitimate traffic was not to be found except when the beta occured.

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