Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? 302
An anonymous reader writes "We've recently seen a number of interesting projects come from bittorrent.com, including Sync and SoShare. I sometimes use torrents to move several GB of data, especially when pushing large bundles to multiple destinations. It's mostly a hodgepodge of open source tools, though. Apart from anecdotes and info from bittorrent.com, details are thin on the ground (e.g. the Blizzard Downloader). I have two questions for the Slashdot community. 1) Do you use BitTorrent to move data? If so, how? i.e. What kind of data and what's the implementation? 2) If you've looked at torrent clients/tools, what's missing in the open source ecosystem that would make it more useful for moving around large blobs of data?"
Absolutely (Score:5, Funny)
All of my Torrents are legal data. What else would I use Bittorrent for besides Linux distros and Humble Bundle games?
Move Legal Data With Torrents? (Score:5, Funny)
Only a complete fucking moron would move legal data with torrents.
A lawyer is obligated to preserve his clients' confidences. When you store your information on somebody elses server or servers you are giving up custody and control over some of those confidences. In that situation you are entirely dependent upon the strength of your encryption.
That encryption might be good today or tomorrow, but how good will it be five years from now or ten years from now when quantum computing or the next best thing becomes available for codebreakers.
Don't risk a lawsuit from a pissed client!
Can you use it to move a 300 megabyte hosts file? (Score:5, Funny)
Move my legal data? (Score:5, Funny)
I let my Lawyers handle that. It's what they're paid for, isn't it?
Re:I use it for linux distributions (Score:5, Funny)
I nearly jizzed in my pants reading this. Nerdgasm.
Re:Patent Trolls? (Score:5, Funny)
i tend to run through a Romanian based VPN almost exclusively for work(my own personal. I wouldn't trust an outside vps with corporate information) related activity, and i can absolutely confirm what he is saying. I've been on the phone with my vpn provider before(hes an old personal friend), and he says "OH BOY MAIL TIME, now i get to have more firewood from your american lawyers" as to which we both chuckle.
Re:Damn right (Score:4, Funny)