On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:51:50 -0500 Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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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