Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Goodbye to ftp.digital.com?
To: Lars <cryptr@cryptr.net>
From: None <cprice@its.to>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/14/2002 15:06:21
I hate to be a wet blanket, but has anyone considered the copyright
implications of this endeavour?
IANAL, but mirroring it for personal use is fine I would think.
Mirroring for public concumption could possibly be very bad..??
Sorry guys, but I don't want to see any of us get in shite.
Digital/Compaq/HP have sent mixed messages over the years.
Cheers
Chris Price
Lars wrote:
>
> I could try the eu site, i have a nice 100mbit connection and about 40gbs
> left i think..
>
> Lars
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matt wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:32:14PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > > bummer!
> > > well, good luck rescuing the disk, i hope you didnt lose much data from it!
> > >
> > > wget reports that it has finished wgett'ing all of ftp.digital.com!!
> > > only 6.4 gigs, too. i'll start on gatekeeper momentarily.. is anyone on
> > > the list closer to the european site, so it doesnt have to go over a slow
> > > line all the way to the us?
> >
> > I can try grabbing the european site if anyone wants, I'll sneak onto
> > a work server, 6.4GB at the most is not too bad.
> >
> > I've just started, am getting ~80 KB/s if that's good enough?
> >
> > Matt
> > --
> > "Phased plasma rifle in a forty-watt range?"
> > "Hey, just what you see, pal"
> >
>
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