Right of course!

Thank you Asheesh!

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On Feb 29, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Conor Schaefer wrote:
>
>> I love this idea, but I also think it would be great for FC to
>> investigate launching a torrent tracker for broader distribution.
>> Perhaps that's lofty thinking, and certainly also require additional
>> resource commitment.
>
> There are already a bunch of legal torrent trackers.  Of our limited  
> time,
> I think it's probably better spent getting more activities on more  
> college
> campuses.  http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Legal_torrent_sites  
> seems
> to be an actively-maintained list of them.
>
>> We'd never want to conflate piracy with FC, as Elizabeth knows full  
>> well
>> even the NYT isn't beyond doing, but isn't this somewhere we should  
>> be
>> heading? Trying to legitimize free, broad exchange of CC material?
>>
>> I hope to see it one day, at least, but it would potentially require
>> substantial oversight to make sure that CC material is posted...
>
> That's the thing - I fear that it may be more work than it's worth,
> especially when others like wortharchiving.com are working on the same
> thing.
>
> Having said that, I would *love* to see us use our bandwidth for  
> *seeding*
> legal torrents.  That would be easy, and if someone knows of a good  
> tool
> for making that easy, I would respond with enthusiasm and effort.
>
>> A thousand thumbs up to the FTP dump! Awesome work, board. =)
>
> And me, who set it up. (-;
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
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