p2pnet - rss feed: eDonkey goes down
p2pnet.net News:- eDonkey has finally and unarguably lined up with other former independent commercial p2p companies which are now working with the Big Four Organized Music family,
Sam Yagan, MetaMachine president and developer of eDonkey, all but spelled it out in September last year when he told a US Senate Judiciary Committee Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World hearing he was “throwing in the towel”.
Now MetaMachine will pay the cartel, “$30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry, according to court documents quoted by the Associated Press.
BearShare, i2Hub, WinMX, iMex and Grokster are already down the tubes and, “With this new settlement, another domino falls, and we have further strengthened the footing of the legal marketplace,” AP has RIAA boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol saying.
Kazaa, now also officially on the other side of the fence, was in a league of its own, purporting to support the p2p community, at the same time trying to cozy up to the entertainment cartels.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is owned by Warner Music (US), Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Britain) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) and, “Under terms of the latest agreement, MetaMachine and its top executives, Sam Yagan and Jed McCaleb, agreed to immediately cease distributing eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, Overnet and other software versions,” says the story, adding ominously, “The company also agreed to take measures to prevent file-sharing by people using previously downloaded versions of the eDonkey software.”
As we write this, “The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available,” says the site.
If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law. Courts around the world - including the United States Supreme Court - have ruled that businesses and individuals can be prosecuted for illegal downloading.
You are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material. Your IP address is xx.xx.xx.xxx and has been logged.
Respect the music, download legally.
Goodbye Everyone.
“Your IP address is xx.xx.xx.xxx and has been logged” is intended to con visitors into thinking their personal details have been revealed which is, of course, pure RIAA bullshit.
Far more seriously, what are the chances of the ‘confidential’ information relating to people who registered with eDonkey and the others remaining confidential?
Meanwhile, “In August, the recording companies filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the firm behind LimeWire,” says AP. “That case is pending.”
Warez P2P, Morpheus and Soulseek are still out there, as is Blubster, and as Drake Zamanov points out, “Older versions of eDonkey should still connect without a problem. eMule is free and is the most used application on the edonkey2000 network. Surprisingly, this development barely impacted the network as there are still 4.3 million users connected to legitimate edonkey servers.”
Stay tuned.
(Thanks, Drake)
Also See:
spelled it out - eDonkey throws in the towel, September 29, 2005
Associated Press - Firm behind eDonkey to pay $30 million to avoid piracy claims, September 11, 2006
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September 12th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
What will happen to you ?
fap fap fap
September 13th, 2006 at 12:24 am
“Courts around the world - including the United States Supreme Court - have ruled that businesses and individuals can be prosecuted for illegal downloading.”
Only a genius could have come up with this innovative and revolutionary legal theory, that individuals can be prosecuted to acting illegally.
Strange that no one yet, of the millions of downloaders out there, has been prosecuted, let alone found guilty nor burned at the stake. And for copying music? Must be joking.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
September 13th, 2006 at 2:00 am
Now I’m not saying illegal file sharing is ok, but the RIAA seriously needs to be shutdown.
September 13th, 2006 at 4:14 am
Isnt the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result - this will make no difference to file sharing levels at all, its just another example of corporate stupidty - we have now over $330 million worth of them and not one cent to the artists… poor old Sam the Man down the loo with the rest of em…
License file sharing users and put us out of your misery.
The network will keep going for years and years despite this and dont forget mutell and frostwire.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:00 am
wtf is illegal sharing?
(5th attempt to post)
September 14th, 2006 at 9:29 am
I think you need to relax and re-read the article again. They’ve done the same thing before to scare people. It’s “bullshit” as the article says!
huds601
September 15th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
” Only a genius could have come up with this innovative and revolutionary legal theory, ”
Shamefully, this is not really ‘theory’.
Around the world it is now a Business Model.
Hire a few folks to do nothing but comb the Web, and use P2P
clients to look for …..
1. Potentially infringing ( even marginally so ) content
2. Any disparaging opinion to the large business.
3. If the disparaging opinion is founf on a competitors site,
automatic bonus.
Use the full weight of your capital to sue anyone meeting the
above criterion, as long as you know they are not financially able
to defend themselves.
Profit from summary judgements
Watch the smaller competitors crumble due to bankruptcy.
Eliminate by financial censorship any and all new or comments
about such activities.
It’s a marvelous system, developed in the US, but now used by
wealthy monopolies in other countries as well.
September 29th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Because Racketeers Industry Assoc of America aka RIAA loses their f…ng money$.So they about to apply racket and repressions instead of market methods.In fact RIAA are real gangsters “in the law”.
Let’s admit eMule rocks in network previously named ed2k.Goodbye, MetaMachine.Making business on P2P is strange idea.It is we, users who really owns the net.It is our PCs and our bandwith.So, we do not have to cry about MetaMachine.That’s their choice and their fate.But nobody can defeat “all”.So we will share.No matter what RIAA invents, they will lose this battle again and again.In worst case, P2P networks will just go completely untraceable, anonimous and using virtualized IDs with proxying to deny any traffic analisys, sources tracking and hence punishment.This will reduce efficiency a bit but will increase anonimity instead