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Linux ISOs are always the example people come up with when they're defending protocols and methods which are primarily used for illegal purposes. The original
by sorbus 16y ago
Linux ISOs are always the example people come up with when they're defending protocols and methods which are primarily used for illegal purposes.
The original post for DropShip gave, as an example, the trailer for a movie. Not the movie itself, but the trailer. That's the equivalent of saying "I've developed this great way to share files, such as videos, but am not going to explicitly say that it could be used for piracy even though everyone knows that that's the only thing it will be used for."
- kelnos 16y agoAnd hell, movie trailers are copyrighted too, and I assume aren't licensed for arbitrary distribution. So posting/sharing a trailer using DropShip is likely copyright infringement too.
- calloc 16y agoThe trailer is from the free video that was released by the Blender foundation ...
- sorbus 16y agoYeah, I know. I feel that my point still stands, though it is somewhat weakened.
- wladimir 16y agoStop trying to second-guess my motives. I used that trailer because it was: - a nicely sized file, consisting of multiple 4MB blocks but not overly huge - already available on the network - free to distribute (yes, that movie is free to distribute, so the trailer certainly is) - apart from that, the blender foundation is simply awesome I could also have used something like the tar archive of the source code or a photo, but this proved that it works for multiple blocks...