[Ambassadors] Rapidshare download of Fedora ISO

[Leo Jackson]

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 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Rapidshare download of Fedora ISO
> To: fedora-ambassadors-list at 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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