From kde-policies Fri Sep 12 19:25:11 2003 From: Scott Wheeler Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:25:11 +0000 To: kde-policies Subject: Re: P2P file sharing software in KDE's CVS X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-policies&m=106339326713025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 September 2003 19:05, Stephan Binner wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2003 16:07, Scott Wheeler wrote: > > > A couple of the guys (on CC here) brought up on IRC the possibility of > > I heard that IRC's DCC can be also used to exchange illegal copies. > Do you suggest to remove all IRC clients too? To quote my original post: Please in the discussion try to avoid, "It's not illegal or immoral and it saved my life" type of arguments. I'd like to keep simple -- risk vs. benefit. > Do you think that the general use of this software is illegal or wrong? Like > downloading newest ISO images of Knoppix and Mandrake release candidates? And that's what we all use it for, right? [wink] Yes, it's a fine way to slow down your downloads of ISOs by a factor of 4 while killing your outgoing bandwidth too! ;-) (Sorry, can't help arguing with these a little bit -- they're always so cute.) > PS: Knifes can kill politicians, why are they still not prohibited? ...and why are machine guns? But this is exactly the type of discussion I was hoping to avoid. I'm playing "devil's advocate" on the above. All of this is irrelevant; I'm not trying to make the case that this is immoral or wrong. I'm simply saying that there are companies with lots of money suing people doing this stuff. If I thought IRC's DCC would really potentially get KDE sued I would be asking the same question about it. - -Scott - -- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - --Richard Feynman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Yh2XQu0ByfY5QTkRAoJ6AJ0dRD0dsfmKZPrSKuN5dX5BgKCPmACdEim+ ZKhiVJSPDfradCXdNrQ7xIY= =1aQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kde-policies mailing list Kde-policies@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-policies