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Recent fuzz about the tracker

Friday, March 4th, 2011

There is some fuzz about our tracker in the recent days. Some people claim that the Chaos Computer Club started a tracker which, in their terms, is the successor of denis.stalker.h3q.com. And they all got it so wrong. First of all, the Chaos Computer Club is running their own BitTorrent trackers for a really long [...]

Flattered by pirates

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

The beerware license – most famously used by Poul-Henning Kamp – originally was less about beer and more about politics. It basically meant surrendering copyrights on your software to “the kids”, helping them to understand, learn and pirate good parts of your source (in order not to reinvent it badly). In exchange, if you were [...]