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[Swad]

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[Mildred]

Hi,

I just saw that you don't want to allow links to torrents:

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2) Torrent files are not allowed, nor are links to torrents.

In case it is some protected file that is downloaded, I completely understand, but there are legal downloads. For example Fedora Core 8 is now available, and it is strongly recommanded to downloaded using torrents to limit the necessary bandwidth of the Fedora servers. And bittorrent downloading is also often faster.

[Alessandro17]

Mildred, on Nov 10 2007, 02:30 AM, said:

Hi,

I just saw that you don't want to allow links to torrents:
In case it is some protected file that is downloaded, I completely understand, but there are legal downloads. For example Fedora Core 8 is now available, and it is strongly recommanded to downloaded using torrents to limit the necessary bandwidth of the Fedora servers. And bittorrent downloading is also often faster.

Of course Swad meant "illegal torrents".

[Sabr]

Mildred, on Nov 10 2007, 01:30 AM, said:

Hi,

I just saw that you don't want to allow links to torrents:
In case it is some protected file that is downloaded, I completely understand, but there are legal downloads. For example Fedora Core 8 is now available, and it is strongly recommanded to downloaded using torrents to limit the necessary bandwidth of the Fedora servers. And bittorrent downloading is also often faster.

As Alessandro said, Swad was trying to get at people posting links to illegal torrents (mainly OSx86 related). P2P file sharing in itself is completely legal and posting links to things like Linux distro's are allowed.

[Alessandro17]

I am not deleting this topic for historical reasons, but please notice that this is now our set of rules: http://www.insanelym...tion=boardrules