Haxe wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2004 10:27, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > > Partial file sharing can be disabled from the "Config / Uploads > > settings" tab, by disabling the "Enable" entry of PFS. But this is a > > very bad idea because it does not help the propagation of files on > > the network. > Wouldn't that mean to disable partial uploads for all files, not only > for files currently downloaded? Either that, or the button/section is > ambiguously labled.
Partial File Sharing (PFS) has nothing to do with up/downloading a chunk of a file. That was always supported by Gnutella from the beginning. PFS means others can download chunks from a *partial* downloaded file. Without PFS you have to wait until someone has downloaded the *complete* file before you can use it as alternate source. This means without PFS, Gnutella doesn't really scale for big files because it takes hours/day/weeks to finish a big file. So without PFS Bittorrent runs circles around Gnutella. > You can get in much more legal trouble for offering/uploading a certain > copyright-protected file than for downloading that very same file. IANAL but IMHO that's about as illegal as re-selling (or rather donating) something you've bought from a fence. Since you cannot know that it was stolen you cannot be hold responsible for it. Only the original theft is responsible. Not to mention that nobody's making profit by downloading or uploading anything. Don't believe the FUD. -- Christian
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