Quote Originally Posted by killozap
I have downloaded the DVD via mirror (not torrent) and it works fine.
Bittorrent is a fine way (like other share-programs) to spread software but its under attack.
What the heck does under attack mean? The checksum that BitTorrent does on every segment as well as the entire file pretty much assures a user that someone can't insert anything malicious if one gets the torrent file from a known good source (like the official Knoppix BitTorrent source). Sure, if you are an idiot and go to warez sites and get something claiming to be the latest greatest warez ripoff you might well get infected, but you can do that with a more traditional file download just as well, it's not BitTorrent that is the issue there. If you're saying that RIAA and MPAA don't like BitTorrent, well screw them, I don't like the MPAA or the RIAA and their very criminal ways. BitTorrent, as we are using it, is a very legitimate tool and perhaps what they don't like is that it demonstrates the valid use of the very legitimate tool (by the way, they don't like the CD burner in your computer either, want to give that up and go back to floppies?).

Just for reference, the 4.0.1 DVD download by BitTorrent delivered more megabytes of files in the first 10 days that the torrents were up than the 3.9 downloads did in the first three months. My Knoppixt BitTorent downloads have been much fater than the old mrror downloads, even with a growing number of Knoppix users. And I used to get a lot of corrupt mirror downloads (around 50%!), and have had no bad BitTorrent downloads. It's fine that you got a good mirror download, and the mirriors are certainly handy for some people behind firewalls that they don't control, but for the average user BitTorrent is a far better choice.