--- 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ===== -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never memorize what you can look up." -Albert Einstein
