Free current issue Linux Format 24hrs!

[Bob Elzer]

>>I don't know (IANAL). I think it's pretty cheesy of them though to use the
"limited time" pitch and then use a >>torrent for distribution. Stupid (or
maybe not-so-stupid?) marketing scam.

You would rather thousands of people hit your server and download the pdf
and the 4GB iso all at the same time and crash the server, and then only ten
people got the complete file. LOL

P2P makes perfect sense to distribute the load, even when they pull the
torrent, people still in the process of downloading will be able to finish
from the peers. There just won't be a link to start any more downloads.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Eric
Shubert
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:54 AM
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Free current issue Linux Format 24hrs!

Ryan Rix wrote:
> How 'legal' is it for someone to upload the torrent somewhere?

I don't know (IANAL). I think it's pretty cheesy of them though to use the
"limited time" pitch and then use a torrent for distribution. Stupid (or
maybe not-so-stupid?) marketing scam.

> I'll bet it's all voer TPB by now (along with the illegitimate PDFs of 
> the other 100 or so issues, but that's beside the point) and depending 
> on the legality I have no problem uploading my copy of the torrent 
> somewhere.
> 
--
-Eric 'shubes'

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