Having a copy of .torrent in the /iso dir

[Sam Varshavchik]

david writes:

> I was just think that the fedora mirror system could save a little/a lot 
> of bandwidth if there were copies of the .torrent files found at 
> http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ in the /iso directories next to the 
> actual iso files.  If these torrents were as convenient to get as the 
> *.iso maybe more people would use them instead of just  saying 'what the 
> heck' and clicking on the .iso.
> Politically it would be a great statement.  One of the most significant 
> open source companies stepping up and using bit torrent for an obviously 
> legal purpose.  But, alas I'm not a lawyers so I have no idea the legal 
> risks this would present.

There's absolutely no legal risk in publishing a .torrent of a Fedora iso.

It appears that torrents were set up independently by folks outside of 
Fedoraland-proper, and they've been managed this way all this time.

Although is comparatively little cost in publishing torrent content, but I 
think that having torrents published by an outside source is better.  When a 
new release comes out all the mirrors get hammered.  It would be nearly 
impossible for you to grab the torrent file then.


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