Your message dated Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:47:33 -0400
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and subject line Re: azureus: Azureus implements DRM in the form of the private
flag
has caused the Debian Bug report #549607,
regarding azureus: Azureus implements DRM in the form of the private flag
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Package: azureus
Version: 4.2.0.8-2
Severity: normal
Azureus obeys the unofficial "private flag" in torrent files, which
intentionally disables decentralized features in the client against the
user's will. Like the broadcast flag, this is a form of DRM and is against
the spirit of freedom that Debian is all about. Note that is it not possible
to remove or disable the flag in the torrent file itself as it will change
the info_hash.
Just as was done with PDF readers that obeyed copy-prevention flags (i.e.
xpdf) this defect should be disabled in the packages that Debian
distributes.
Ideally the flag would simply be ignored, but if a compromise is needed
torrents with the private flag set could have decentralized features
disabled by default, but still allow the user to enable them if desired.
This would respect the user's freedom while allowing the torrent file
distributer to express their wishes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages azureus depends on:
ii java-wrappers 0.1.15 wrappers for java executables
ii libcommons-cli-java 1.2-2 API for working with the command l
ii liblog4j1.2-java 1.2.15-7 Logging library for java
ii libswt-gtk-3.4-java 3.4.2-3 Standard Widget Toolkit for GTK+ J
ii openjdk-6-jre 6b16-1.6.1-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
Versions of packages azureus recommends:
pn vuze <none> (no description available)
azureus suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hello.
Well as far as I know, this isn't any sort of DRM protection or anything
like that. After contacting upstream, we agreed that the flag is merely
used to ensure that trackers are being used, that's it.
It is a feature of the protocol since many years ago, and we think any
client which doesn't obey that flag has to be considered bad.
Recalling, it's only forcing peers to be pulled from the tracker.
You could just register in the site which holds the torrent you want to
download, that's it.
We don't see any reasons to ignore this flag, and that will go against
BT and will certainly ban a lot of users, ignoring the fact that the
client will be poorer if we put things like you told us.
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Best regards,
Adrian Perez <[email protected]>
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