I agree rapid share is not a good idea. I downloaded, and verify that the file is good and
find that items downloaded from uploads md5 check sum is wrong I reverse a package and the
original with a bin-diff checker and find files that are not right. Or all md5 on files
wrong. anti virus check find Trojan hidden file for rewrite of files. And bad ISO so if
you download anything always do a check sum ASAP. Rapid share has long been a source for
warez and other stuff.
Regards,
Leo Albert Jackson Jr
Owner Head Programmer
LJ's Electronics and Software
--- On Sat, 10/18/08, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Rapidshare download of Fedora ISO
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008, 4:06 PM
(please don't top post)
Am Samstag, den 18.10.2008, 23:54 +0500 schrieb Neo Reeves:
>
> Yeah I know...but most of them can't provide
enough bandwidth for
> rapid speed downloads.
>From my experience I'd say most of them can easily
provide that speeds,
even more. Much more if you compare to the free
(unregistered)
downloads, because their speed is strongly limited.
It's not fair to
compare to the premium downloads because these are not free
and I'd
don't think we should promote downloads of free
software through a
service that people need to pay for.
Another think that scares my about your idea: Everyone can
upload to
rapidshare. How do we make sure the images are really the
original
images? There is no way to validate the downloads e.g. with
md5sums.
IMO we should encourage the use of bittorrent. Most of the
time it's the
fastet way to download, it disburdens the mirrors and
promotes the idea
of sharing.
Regards,
Christoph
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