david writes:
I was just think that the fedora mirror system could save a little/a lot of bandwidth if there were copies of the .torrent files found at http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ in the /iso directories next to the actual iso files. If these torrents were as convenient to get as the *.iso maybe more people would use them instead of just saying 'what the heck' and clicking on the .iso. Politically it would be a great statement. One of the most significant open source companies stepping up and using bit torrent for an obviously legal purpose. But, alas I'm not a lawyers so I have no idea the legal risks this would present.
There's absolutely no legal risk in publishing a .torrent of a Fedora iso.It appears that torrents were set up independently by folks outside of Fedoraland-proper, and they've been managed this way all this time.
Although is comparatively little cost in publishing torrent content, but I think that having torrents published by an outside source is better. When a new release comes out all the mirrors get hammered. It would be nearly impossible for you to grab the torrent file then.
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