04-22-2005, 09:49 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Vancouver, WA
Distribution: Suse 10.2, FreeBSD 6.2
Posts: 175
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Originally posted by knetknight
it's legal, it's just not "official". you can believe me or not but i've spoken on the phone directly to suse about the legality of my torrent and have been told that there's no legal problem. suse will never promote a torrent (unless they made their own, hmmm...) or encourage anyone to get suse any other way than directly from them -- via retail or one of their official ftp/http mirrors. thus, my torrent and others like it are all unofficial, even if our md5s exactly match what you get compared to the boxed-set. the moderators are quite right to point out that most of those who download from such a torrent have no way of knowing if the software is untampered with -- if they had the originals they wouldn't need to download it from people like me. thus, i encourage you to check the md5s of any unofficial torrents you download with what's officially published as soon as that official base is available.
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Thank You. I would not ever want to unknowingly download something not legal.
Regards,
Randy. |
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