BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[Frank Wiles]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:51:50 -0500
Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

  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.  

  That was my point. 

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