Package: mldonkey-server Version: 3.0.3-4 Severity: wishlist I have a hobby involving the collection of files which are often only found on P2P networks.¹ MLDonkey is a very nice client for them, allowing me to fire-and-forget. Unfortunately, however, every now and then, a file disguised as something I am looking for turns out to be pornography or some other unwanted content, and the other day I received a lawyer's letter threatening me to fine for "serving his client's content". This is part of a scheme popular in Germany: put your crap movies that nobody will buy on P2P networks, hide them under names that everyone downloads and then sue the users for making the content available — after all, this is what P2P is about, uploading while downloading… MLDonkey enforces uploading by tying the upload rate to the download rate. Therefore, if I want to download, I must allow uploads. Due to the aforementioned scheme and the danger of getting into legal trouble for participating in a file sharing exercise that you don't really want to participate in, it would be nice if that upload/download-ratio could be disabled, i.e. via Debconf by the admin. Thank you for your consideration. (¹) This sounds dodgy, I know, but I am not talking about pirating music and videos, this is about ancient documentaries on German television, which are not being made available and for which the television company has issued statements that they will never be aired again. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
Attachment:
digital_signature_gpg.asc
Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current)