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Originally Posted by paulroberthill
I really don't think it's necessary to link to torrents. I found some GB roms with a simple Google seach, hosted on http so I could use wget to download directly to the Kindle!
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I would normally NOT post a torrent link, but the request was for the specific version of tetris that I tested, and the parent webpage for that torrent redirects to an advertising site. So, to satisfy that specific request, I made an exception and provided a direct link to the torrent file that I used.
I agree that we do not want the excessively aggressive negative attention that megaupload got, so unless needed to answer a specific request as I did, we should not post direct links to torrents.
Which begs the question:
If you think it was not necessary for ME to post the torrent link, then why did YOU publish the torrent link AGAIN inside the quote in YOUR post? Even if I remove the link from my post, your link to the torrent will remain and I cannot edit your post to remove it.
You did not say WHY you are against posting torrent links, but you did point out that with a direct URL you can use wget to download gnuboy ROMs directly to the kindle. If your anti-torrent comment is because you cannot download gnuboy ROMs directly to the kindle with a torrent link, then you may not be aware that there is a torrent client that works on the kindle (in the optware repository).
