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@ Sadik I am not sure on this issue. But as per one view the FAQ 9 that you quoted. It says - "The media can
be copied to or written to a DVD." It does not speak of 'distribution'. As ICAI itself has not made the link public, it would be violation of copyright to distribute the details of the software !!
So pretty not sure. Though I am quite willing to help - but I would prefer if something is legal - it should be for all. As such we should refrain from violating copyright laws. I have written to ICAI for clarification on this matter. |
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Again Thanks for your efforts. Actually I came to read (your) this post, after i posted the above procedure.
Nice to see your concern for legal preference. After all, we all (who has paid for it) prefer legal, so we are paying for it and waiting for days to complete our download. And If we would not, Aren't there pirated softwares available freely and even used widely in our country ?
Indeed when purchasing, i thought they would give a download link to a Microsoft Server, where we would get .iso images of the softwares (i.e. win7 and ms office) and with our VLK (volume license keys) - provided by icai+microsoft, we would activate it. But the senario is quite different. They are providing a RAR file, and by trying to explore the RAR file , i could partialy see some folder names inside, which were like 'DVD_ROM (E)', 'boot'. etc. which means they have simply copied DVD contents and compressed them ?. That seems impractical as for an Operating System installation.
I can't get why did they not communicate for two months after making payment. And they did , after withdrawing the offer ! (actually i wanted to buy another license for my laptop, after completing the first successfuly)
They are even not responding to request for 'Base Starter Pack" as they mentioned in FAQ, to be purchased for 1000 + Taxes.
Anyways, It happens only in india.
Now a few words on torrents. In torrents, the file is segmented into smaller pieces (that may be pieces of 64 KBs, 128 KBs, ...., upto 4 MBs). A single file torrent is mainly the HASH value calculated per piece. (you know MD5, SHA1 hash, don't you?) . Resulting in aoubt 20-50 KBs total torrent file size. (otherwise MD5/SHA1 like HASHes are only a few bytes).
So when checking integrity of downloaded file, torrent client compares HASHes of individual pieces. If a piece mismatch, it reports it as corrupted and redownloads that piece.
A HASH is a one way route, that means, you can calculate hash value of a data, but can't retrive data from a hash value.
That said, you can't create a 4 GB file from a 20 KB torrent file, unless someone seeds it for you, or you have a direct web link.
Now what i want to say, is , by distributing .torrents files we are not distributing any details of the file, except file name.
And only they will be able to use the torrent, who have a valid link to the file. That means no copyright violation.
If you are getting confused, or unsure, Don't worry! I apreciate your efforts and you have surely tried to help.
We will wait and watch, if our institute comes up with some solution, or, I will try to get a higher bandwidtth connection and retry once more!
Thanks again for your concern in the matter. Good luck.!
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