Re: Block Bittorrent client

Jason <Jason@invalid.address.com> wrote:
> * Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>:
> > dan@nospam.com wrote:
> >> Don't run the Bit Torrent client! Or install a software firewall like
> >> ZoneAlarm or Outpost and don't allow it outbound or inbound traffic.
> > Because of this posting, I will ask Alex Bernauer, if he want's to
> > implement a Torrent extension based on his wwwsh.
> > Thank you for the good idea!
> > Bit Torrent is a very good P2P network, and should be supported.
> Yes it is however I bet you can't give me 5 examples of it being used
> for the use it was designed for where as I can list 100's of examples of
> it being used to get warez. I suspect this may be the OPs reason for
> wanting it to be blocked.

I don't know it for warez, because I'm mostly using Free Software anyways.
But Torrent is very good to distribute large files for many people. We at
the CCC for example are distributing the videos of the speeches of our
congresses with Torrent, and have good results.

Yours,
VB.

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