BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Monday 11 October 2004 08:41 am, Frank Wiles wrote:

> > On Friday 08 October 2004 02:17 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote:

> > > The INDUCE Act is trying to make all P2P software illegal...

> Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> > That would include P2P software like ftp, scp, cp, dd, tar, copy,
> > etc.?

>   FYI ftp, scp, cp, dd, tar, and copy aren't P2P programs.

They are to the same extent that bittorrent is: they allow you to copy a file 
to a new location without reference to the content or "ownership" of the 
original file.  Programs like scp have _exactly_ the same result as 
bittorrent, they just do it a little differently.

Pretending that there is some moral component to a distributed file transfer 
system that doesn't exist in a simply "copy" command is pure fantasy.