Right of course! Thank you Asheesh!
F 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. > > -- > Where you stand depends on where you sit. > -- Rufus Miles, HEW > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
