What happens once we start talking about torrents? Say I download a CD torrent that I own the license to. In the process of downloading, though, I am uploading bits of information to different peers. At no point in the download process do I ever posess a complete copy of the CD to share; nor am I ever (at any point, unless I seed it for quite some time) sharing cumulatively the entire contents of the CD. Assuming I never act as seed (always a leech), would the RIAA have grounds to sue? Given the truly distributed nature of the torrent system, in what situations *would* they have grounds to sue, if any?
I couldn't agree more. I'm fairly comfortable with computers and have recently been making the switch to Linux (Mandrake 9.1). I'm loving it! KDE has been great to me.
My wife, on the other hand, won't even look at my KDE desktop. She's an intermediate user (like your eldest sister) who loves doing what she does. Any change that is not initiated by her (i.e., she's fine installing programs *she* seeks out) is met with strong opposition.
In terms of usability, I'm having a wonderful time with Mandrake and KDE. The environment is familiar enough to my old WinXP setup to make the transition fairly simple; but I definitely find it more confortable and powerful.
Now, if I could only get my wife's WinXP wireless laptop to play nice with Samba....
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What happens once we start talking about torrents? Say I download a CD torrent that I own the license to. In the process of downloading, though, I am uploading bits of information to different peers. At no point in the download process do I ever posess a complete copy of the CD to share; nor am I ever (at any point, unless I seed it for quite some time) sharing cumulatively the entire contents of the CD. Assuming I never act as seed (always a leech), would the RIAA have grounds to sue? Given the truly distributed nature of the torrent system, in what situations *would* they have grounds to sue, if any?
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I couldn't agree more. I'm fairly comfortable with computers and have recently been making the switch to Linux (Mandrake 9.1). I'm loving it! KDE has been great to me. My wife, on the other hand, won't even look at my KDE desktop. She's an intermediate user (like your eldest sister) who loves doing what she does. Any change that is not initiated by her (i.e., she's fine installing programs *she* seeks out) is met with strong opposition. In terms of usability, I'm having a wonderful time with Mandrake and KDE. The environment is familiar enough to my old WinXP setup to make the transition fairly simple; but I definitely find it more confortable and powerful. Now, if I could only get my wife's WinXP wireless laptop to play nice with Samba....