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Re: Music sites riskier than porn?
It says Music Sites and then lists Bear Share. Isn't Bear Share a P2P app, or am I confused? |
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| I guess they assume people primarily use P2P apps for pirating music and not other illicit activities such as pirating movies or tv shows, or even legal activities like sharing Linux distros.
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Nightshade
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I noticed that also. It makes me wonder just how neutral MacAfee is in conducting this report. I see no mention of non P2P music apps that you can download directly from a website, such as iTunes. They do not make the distinction and they say that people only use P2P clients to download music which we all know is incorrect.
I will dare say you are at most risk getting infected downloading a application form a P2P network than a mp3 file. |
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nipseyrussel
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" It says Music Sites and then lists Bear Share. Isn't Bear Share a P2P app, or am I confused?"
Bingo, i'm guessing its another article where the writer either does not understand the topic or dumbs it down for an ignorant audience.
I apologize for guessing, but apparently my work web filter has now decided to block BugMeMot for some reason (classified as "criminal skills"!!!)
argh! |
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Maxo
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said by nklb  :I guess they assume people primarily use P2P apps for pirating music and not other illicit activities such as pirating movies or tv shows, or even legal activities like sharing Linux distros. Linux distros does for P2P what Hitler did for war. |
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Maxo
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clubs: | What exactly does Linux do for P2P? |
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batterup
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clubs: | said by Maxo :What exactly does Linux do for P2P? It legitimises it. |
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nklb
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clubs: | Wow, never thought I would say this but that analogy of Linux to Hitler is actually pretty accurate.
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batterup
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| said by nklb :Wow, never thought I would say this but that analogy of Linux to Hitler is actually pretty accurate. Thank you, at least one pearl did not go to waste. Plus I said Hitler in a thread and did not automatically lose the argument, sweet. |
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Maxo
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said by batterup :said by Maxo :What exactly does Linux do for P2P? It legitimises it. How? |
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batterup
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| said by Maxo :said by batterup :said by Maxo :What exactly does Linux do for P2P? It legitimises it. How? Are you having sport with batterup? There is very little legitimate need or use for massive P2P down/uploads. Linux distros are one of the few exceptions as they are huge public domain files that may be freely shared.
The knee-jerk answer to the question of *why do you need to be able to upload 4 gig files* is *for sharing Linix distros of course*. |
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Maxo
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| I wasn't having sport with you. I thought you were some how saying that Linux = piracy.
What you are saying is that Linux actually utilises Bit Torrent for it's intended purpose. I wish more people/companies looking to distribute would utilise it. |
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