I think fedora needs...
pctech at mybellybutton.com
pctech at mybellybutton.com
Mon Dec 15 14:28:42 UTC 2003
--- Eric Feldhusen <efeldhusen at chartermi.net> wrote:
> 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.
According to the XMule web site, as of 22-Nov they
were still working on it and have released v1.7.1 of
XMule.
>
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