On Monday 11 October 2004 11:17 am, Frank Wiles wrote:
That would include P2P software like ftp, scp, cp, dd, tar, copy, etc.?
I don't doubt they all fall under the INDUCE act, but that wasn't what I was saying. P2P means 'peer to peer'. ftp and scp are S2P and all of the others are just plain local.
What's your definition of "local"? I rarely use ftp within my home network, usually it's to get something from a remote, public server. I use scp a lot to transfer files between sites. I use cp to transfer files between servers over mapped network drives.
I use the Konqueror browser's ability to represent an ftp session as a click-and-drag file copy to move <gasp> visual media from one location to another - when I'm publishing photograps for a client.
The only difference between these programs and bittorrent is that bittorrent uses multiple sources to copy files to multiple locations.
You can not make a moral judgement on a method of transferring files. It just doesn't make sense.