Well paint me red etc. etc. girl scout. “Hotfile is determined to outlast Hollywood’s ongoing crusade against file locker services. The company is defending itself against an aggressive litigation campaign that movie studios first brought against it over a year ago. Hotfile’s case may be bolstered by a recent report which shows that the two most widely-downloaded files distributed through the popular file locker service are open source software applications.”
If that’s true, I’m not sure how to feel.
I’ve always felt that open-source projects not either doing their own hosting properly or using a site like GitHub or BitBucket or Google Code or SourceForge are run by people who are so incompetent that they don’t deserve popularity.
On the one hand, that seems to be true since I’ve never run into projects hosting their stuff on file lockers but, on the other hand, I pity any developers who don’t get their chance purely because they have so little understanding of how to make an open-source project look acceptably professional and appealing.
The only Open Source software that I’ve regularly seen on Hotfile are people dumping .deb files for the Nokia N900 on there. Never understood why they do that, since they could use the garage.maemo.org or as you say, bitbucket, etc.
How can one be an expert witness to online downloading exactly?
Expert witness commonly just means witness with a specialization, rather than “I’m good at what I do”.
nr. 3 until 10?