[tex-live] Install Texlive 2008 "The Pirate Bay" website --- uncompressed

[Alex Hamann]

On 07.10.2008, at 14:16, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Alex Hamann <mailinglist at alex- 
> hamann.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> maybe a way to uphold the torrent service but avoid having people  
>> getting
>> offended by ads on The Pirate Bay would be to offer the torrent as  
>> a direct
>> download from the TUG website. I do not think that just because  
>> the tracker
>> is linked to Pirate Bay, Mininova or any other torrent database  
>> the whole
>> idea of offering texlive as a torrent should be abandoned. The  
>> tracker
>> itself does not carry any dubious material.
>
> It may work or may not, depending how tracker is set-up.
>
> Long-long ago the way for Soviet mathematicians to get a book
> published abroad was to work as a reviewer for Math Reviews or
> Zentralblatt fur Mathematik and use the (virtual) royalty to buy the
> books from AMS or Springer-Verlag. So the friend of mine once ordered
> the book of Spivak "The Joy of Sex" but when his order arrived he
> discovered his error :-) but realized later that it was actually very
> useful book. I wonder how many people downloaded the torrent assuming
> that it was "Sex Live 2008" :-)
>
> Victor
>

that might not be the worst thing to happen... if it gets them into  
LaTeX