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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-20 19:25:35
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Rewrite this paragraph.

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 Certain decentralized forms of peer-to-peer file sharing present a challenge
 to the unidirectional view of distribution that is implicit in GPLv2 and
 Draft 1 of GPLv3.  It is neither straightforward nor reasonable to identify
 an upstream/downstream link in BitTorrent distribution; such distribution is
 multidirectional, cooperative and anonymous.  In systems like BitTorrent,
 participants act both as transmitters and recipients of blocks of a
 particular file, but they see themselves as users and receivers, and not as
 distributors in any conventional sense.  At any given moment of time, most
 peers will not have the complete file.
 Draft 1 of GPLv3.  Identification of an upstream/downstream link in
 BitTorrent distribution is neither straightforward nor reasonable; such
 distribution is multidirectional, cooperative and anonymous.  In peer-to-peer
 distribution systems, participants act both as transmitters and recipients of
 blocks of a particular file, but they perceive the experience merely as users
 and receivers, and not as distributors in any conventional sense.  At any
 given moment of time, most peers will not have the complete file.
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