On Sunday 01 August 2004 16:36, Christian Biere wrote: > Partial File Sharing (PFS) has nothing to do with up/downloading a > chunk of a file.
Ok, I understand that. But in that case, I think the caption of the control section is somewhat misleading. It says "Partial File Sharing (swarming)". It may be clear that PFS only refers to incomplete files. But the term "swarming" also includes partial up/downloads from _complete_ files, doesn't it? Maybe the "(swarming)" should be removed from the caption. > 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. That may be the case in one country, but it may be not in another. Since GTKG is used all over the world, it should be possible to setup the program according to the local situation. I now understand that it IS indeed possible, because I only misinterpreted the caption (as described above), so everything is fine :-), but just to make the point... It shouldn't be a an open source developer's concern to interpret laws, especially not of every country in the world. Just leave it open to the users. Of course, keep "PFS enabled" being the default ;-) Another PFS issue, I just recognized the field "First chunk size" in the same section. As I have experienced, it is often not only the first, but also the last chunk of a file that contains important structural data. This is especially true for many video files. Maybe a chunk of that size should be downloaded from the beginning AND from the end of a file, before proceeding to download random chunks. By the way, I think downloading a file in random order is a very good idea. Do you know if the other major gnutella clients also do it that way? Greetz, Hauke Hachmann ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
