--- Eric Feldhusen <efeldhusen(a)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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