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Bug#694485: marked as done (Override the UL/DL ratio restriction)

Your message dated Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:05:12 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1030690: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #694485,
regarding Override the UL/DL ratio restriction
to be marked as done.

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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.

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Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Version: 3.1.7-2+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package mldonkey has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1030690

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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