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Torrents

Published by Robert Pogson January 27th, 2011 in technology. 2 Comments

News (?) that Google was censoring search for torrents disturbed me as bittorrent is a powerful tool to permit wide distribution of FLOSS at minimum cost and uplinking is one way ordinary folks can “give back” to the FLOSS community.

No fear, “torrent site:debian.org” finds 4700 hits. Perhaps the censorship is more targeted or being phased in.

- Robert Pogson

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1 ChrisTX Jan 27th, 2011 at 6:24 pm

They’re not censoring the searches, they’ve just removed it from their instant and suggestion services.

Also, let’s be honest, while torrents are indeed a nice way of downloading distro ISOs, I’d say that at least 95% of torrent traffic are not covering legal material.
2 Robert Pogson Jan 27th, 2011 at 7:10 pm

By that reasoning we should ban all e-mail because most of it is spam. It’s not logical to punish folks using torrents because some people use torrents to do illegal file transfers.

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