It is very unfortunate that because of pirating of proprietary software, songs and films many organizations blacklist torrent downloads.
But it (torrent with many clients) does a yeoman service to the Linux Community.
What I say below is for K-torrent as a client and I have stopped using Microsoft for the last three years and soon would be changing to LibreOffice by dropping Open Office due to Oracle's underhand dealing with Sun Java Suite that they have purchased.
Big monopolies that come from America take every opportunity to retard the progress of the Open Source Movement but it bounces back with vigor and vitalizing its base, come what it may.
My “hats off” for the Guys / Girls doing service to the community.
I am against the practice of pirating (it is stealing) in the third world countries especially from India and then the Controlling authorities turning a blind eye and allowing the pirating as a normal practice and this retard the growth of Linux in the Asian countries including Sri-Lanka.
What is appalling is even in Universities this practice is rampant.
Universities should take the leadership in preventing pirating and they are the ones who would benefit in the long run since their proprietary rights that come as scholarly work is protected from infringement.
The initiation to protect the copyright and prevent illegal reproductions should be their onus in conjunction with controlling authorities.
But this never happens.
Writing this is for some other purpose.
We need to protect productions that come out of community collaborations, especially in Linux. Even these are getting hijacked by the big companies buying the well establish Commercial Linux products and endeavors like Suse and insinuating few proprietary slip ins in between the Open Source Products where their purity is tarnished in a legal manner.
Law is an Ass and it stands true when these manipulations are freely allowed by the law of the land.
Engineering splits in the Mandriva Linux are also in their sinister plans.
Point 1-No donations
With all these problems Linuxtracker Organization is doing what it can do to keep the community intact and developments tracked and updated regularly.
It only requests only $300 per month (that is a 10 dollar a day).
But people are stingy to donate even that which I find how selfish we are when it comes to be a consumer and a customer.
We must donate even as little as possible to keep these volunteers working for Linux.
Point 2-Slow Speed of Downloads
In the third world 90% of the people have no access to internet at home.
The 10% who have access, the download speed is very slow.
They can never think of downloading a DVD.
For example it took nearly 9 days, 4 days and 2 and half days to download 3 DVDs (Kororaa, 1.5 GiB Knoppix 3.4 GiB and PClinuxMonty 4 GiB-the fastest).
ArchBang 536 MiB took over 10 hours.
That is also my K-torrent running almost 24 hours..
I share these images with my friends and students.
In addition I leave a few images in my Dropbox for my friends here and abroad to share.
Point 3-How can we help the community?
One way is to donate few dollars.
The other way is to keep the images in the folder without removing them and let the computer idle or do some other download so that your computer work as a seeder for uploading.
This will enormously improve your download speed, too.
The rule is give as much as you take!
I am happy to say at times there is more uploads from my computer than downloads.
It is seeding well.
I have decided to dedicate my computer to torrent images (when I got my regular office work is organized in another computer) in the coming year once I have downloaded the most urgently needed updates and few games DVDs to add some spice into my plate.
The least that one can do is to leave the computer door open (Linux knows how to choose the port) for others to upload for a few hours a day.
In return your download speed will also improve.
That is the way torrent works.
It is also a community that is alive and active.
Be an active member of K-torrents.
But it (torrent with many clients) does a yeoman service to the Linux Community.
What I say below is for K-torrent as a client and I have stopped using Microsoft for the last three years and soon would be changing to LibreOffice by dropping Open Office due to Oracle's underhand dealing with Sun Java Suite that they have purchased.
Big monopolies that come from America take every opportunity to retard the progress of the Open Source Movement but it bounces back with vigor and vitalizing its base, come what it may.
My “hats off” for the Guys / Girls doing service to the community.
I am against the practice of pirating (it is stealing) in the third world countries especially from India and then the Controlling authorities turning a blind eye and allowing the pirating as a normal practice and this retard the growth of Linux in the Asian countries including Sri-Lanka.
What is appalling is even in Universities this practice is rampant.
Universities should take the leadership in preventing pirating and they are the ones who would benefit in the long run since their proprietary rights that come as scholarly work is protected from infringement.
The initiation to protect the copyright and prevent illegal reproductions should be their onus in conjunction with controlling authorities.
But this never happens.
Writing this is for some other purpose.
We need to protect productions that come out of community collaborations, especially in Linux. Even these are getting hijacked by the big companies buying the well establish Commercial Linux products and endeavors like Suse and insinuating few proprietary slip ins in between the Open Source Products where their purity is tarnished in a legal manner.
Law is an Ass and it stands true when these manipulations are freely allowed by the law of the land.
Engineering splits in the Mandriva Linux are also in their sinister plans.
Point 1-No donations
With all these problems Linuxtracker Organization is doing what it can do to keep the community intact and developments tracked and updated regularly.
It only requests only $300 per month (that is a 10 dollar a day).
But people are stingy to donate even that which I find how selfish we are when it comes to be a consumer and a customer.
We must donate even as little as possible to keep these volunteers working for Linux.
Point 2-Slow Speed of Downloads
In the third world 90% of the people have no access to internet at home.
The 10% who have access, the download speed is very slow.
They can never think of downloading a DVD.
For example it took nearly 9 days, 4 days and 2 and half days to download 3 DVDs (Kororaa, 1.5 GiB Knoppix 3.4 GiB and PClinuxMonty 4 GiB-the fastest).
ArchBang 536 MiB took over 10 hours.
That is also my K-torrent running almost 24 hours..
I share these images with my friends and students.
In addition I leave a few images in my Dropbox for my friends here and abroad to share.
Point 3-How can we help the community?
One way is to donate few dollars.
The other way is to keep the images in the folder without removing them and let the computer idle or do some other download so that your computer work as a seeder for uploading.
This will enormously improve your download speed, too.
The rule is give as much as you take!
I am happy to say at times there is more uploads from my computer than downloads.
It is seeding well.
I have decided to dedicate my computer to torrent images (when I got my regular office work is organized in another computer) in the coming year once I have downloaded the most urgently needed updates and few games DVDs to add some spice into my plate.
The least that one can do is to leave the computer door open (Linux knows how to choose the port) for others to upload for a few hours a day.
In return your download speed will also improve.
That is the way torrent works.
It is also a community that is alive and active.
Be an active member of K-torrents.
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