Re: I think fedora needs...

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--- Eric Feldhusen <efeldhusen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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