[GRLUG] Current status of file shareing

[David Pembrook]

If your on comcast, force encryption on your connections or they will 
throttle the downloads. I doubled my speed doing that and am seeing 
almost 12 down at times.

Dave

On 4/26/2011 12:05 AM, Richard Nienhuis wrote:
> Bittorrent is the king.  Ligit and pirated distribution channels use it now.
>
> I think the risks are still the same as back in the day.  If you just
> randomly download stuff, you will catch something eventually.  Either
> a virus or a lawsuit.
>
> Many companies has stopped suing because the only winners were the lawyers.
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Joseph McLaughlin<jwm8351 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Just wondering about file sharing - A few years back there was kazza, and
>> morpheous.
>> Is file sharing too dangerous today -
>> Because of viruses -
>> Because of lawsuits -
>> If it is ok - what sites would work?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joe
>>
>> This request is just to find information and does not imply intent to
>> actually download illegally.
>>
>> There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Joseph McLaughlin<jwm8351 at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."
>> <grlug at grlug.org>
>> Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 1:41:41 AM
>> Subject: menu question
>>
>> I have multiple (less than 10) Ubuntu boxes!
>>
>> I would like to execute one program - then pick what I really want to do.
>>
>> So
>>      One source
>>      Multiple machines
>>
>> If I only had one box I would just update the Applications Menu.
>>
>> Any quick ideas -
>>
>> Anything that is to complicated I would just update all the Application
>> Menus by hand.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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