I think fedora needs...

[Eric Feldhusen]

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.