BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[Jonathan Hutchins]

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.