add first-time user dialog to follow suggestions from the draft "Informed P2P User Act"

[charles]

I'm not a lawyer, but whether or not BitTorrent? is included in this bill depends on how a judge would interpret "search":

• Sec. 4.(4)(A)(i): Transmission does not search files at all. The file list comes from the .torrent metainfo, which is not obtained from the peer. Filenames are never actually shared between peers.
• Sec. 4.(4)(A)(ii): Conversely, Transmission does not allow the searching of files on the computer on which Transmission is installed
• Sec. 4.(4)(A)(ii)(I): Users are required to take the action of running Transmission before it will share data with other BitTorrent? clients.
• Sec. 4.(4)(A)(iii): Again, Transmission does not search or allow searching.

That said, it would be nice for us to follow the spirit of the bill and follow its suggestions regarding obtaining informed consent from the user.

Note to OS distributions / hardware manufacturers distributing Transmission: IANAL but the terms of this bill do not appear to affect you. The "covered entities" in this bill are either the file-sharing program developers, or an entity that disseminates the file-sharing program and is owned or operated by the entity that developed the file-sharing program. Sec. 4. (2)(A) and Sec. 4. (2)(B)

So if this bill were to be passed, in my opinion it would not cover, say, Canonical from bundling Transmission in Ubuntu, unless the Transmission team were to purchase Canonical... ;)

[charles]

Popup dialog added to GTK+ client in r9231

[livings124]

The other clients still need this.

[livings124]

added to Mac client in r9232

[charles]

revised version of the popup dialog

[livings124]

dialog for the Mac client

[charles]

dialog for the Qt client

[charles]

added to the Qt client in r9237.