On 27 Jan 2006, at 02:14, Volodya wrote: > Michael Rogers wrote: >> Ian Clarke wrote: >>> Its not about being in competition with Freenet, its about the >>> convenience of allowing people to obtain Freenet. We need to >>> ensure that there are as few obstacles in the way as possible. >>> BitTorrent would be an unnecessary obstacle to adoption. >> How about bundling a Java BitTorrent client like Snark (58 kB, >> GPL) with the installer? >> It might also be worth offering a magnet link for people who >> already run filesharing software. >> http://www.klomp.org/snark/ >> http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/ >> Cheers, >> Michael > > Why not have an option? You don't *have to* download via torrent if > you don't want to, but there is no reason not to allow it.
All this talk of torrent links is well and good, but it is proving to be a distraction from the main issue, which is that we need a solution to allow people to conveniently download Freenet via HTTP without using up emu's bandwidth quota. So far, only Patrick Meade has offered a solution to this, we need more people to offer mirrored space. Ian.
