Stefan Hirschmann gmx.at> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> Today I noticed a strang forum posting: [1]
>
> Short English summary:
> -
> A lawyer from Augsburg, Germany sent a "Abmahnung" [2] to a person which
>downloaded Debian using Bittorrent.
> The company "Media Art Holland
> [...]
> Calling the German lawyer to find out who are his client might be a
> good idea.
I heard from other sources, which I consider trustworthy, that this
was discovered to be a fake letter, sent as a sort of bad joke.
Therefore, the specific case is of no real interest, although I agree that
Florian Weimer deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
> * Stefan Hirschmann:
>
> > My opion is that this behavior is not good for Debian's reputation and
> > the project should take legal action against the lawyer and this
> > company.
>
> >From what I've read, it is not clear at all whether a lawyer actual
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Jeff Epler wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how transmitting a range of bytes in a
torrent is different than transmitting a range of bytes in response to
e.g., an FTP REST or an HTTP byte-range request.
It's not. Imagine that instead of torrenting the file, you just downloa
* Stefan Hirschmann:
> My opion is that this behavior is not good for Debian's reputation and
> the project should take legal action against the lawyer and this
> company.
>From what I've read, it is not clear at all whether a lawyer actually
sent anything.
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I'm trying to figure out how transmitting a range of bytes in a
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Heck, consider one ethernet or PPP packet that contains just a part of
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Ken Arromdee wrote:
> [GPLv2, section 3] That section only applies if you got a
> written offer. People who use Bittorrent to download (and therefore to
> upload) Debian don't have a written offer, so they can't take advantage of
> that clause. (Debian itself is, as you point out, distributing s
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