[JDEV] File transfer and file sharing: view of end-user

[Richard Dobson]

The only problem with adding these file sharing features (people being able
to download files from someone that were not specifically sent to them) is
that we move into the firing line of the RIAA etc, its nice for users but
could be dangerous for us developers and jabber as a whole, before going
down this path the legality of this needs to be properly sorted out.

Sorry if im putting a dampener on it but these problems do need to be
thought about.

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mattias Campe" <Mattias.Campe at rug.ac.be>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] File transfer and file sharing: view of end-user


> <snip file transer stuff>
>
> > File sharing:
> > -------------
> > A lot of my friends wouldn't know how to set up an ftp-server, but a lot
> > of them use ICQ to share files with their contactlist. For the moment I
> > don't like ICQ's file sharing (apart from the fact that I don't like
> > ICQ), because it seems to lack some features.
> >
> > - I would like to see/notified who's downloading from me...
> > - Ability to set speed of download/upload
> > - I would like to share a file or directory A with user jklm at server.com
> > and qqsdf at server.net, file or directory B with uip at server.org and
> > nothing else with my other contacts.
>
> - The ability that other users (but again, some of them, not all of them)
> can upload their files to me...