eDonkey: Another P2P System Caves to Recording Industry

Lars must be so proud...

Published on September 13, 2006 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

It looks like MetaMachine, the company behind the eDonkey Peer-to-Peer filesharing network will be coughing up $30million to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of six record companies. Since the settlement, the services' website has been shut-down. This marks the latest death in the rapidly dwindling P2P Fileshare space.

Next on the RIAA's list of targets looks to be the service LimeWire, another P2P fileshare network that is developed and backed by a single company that looks to be profiting from the questionable content swapping it enables.

Comments

speedy5662

on Sep 13, 2006

Their article was very true, except for one statement. You CANNOT use edonkey anymore it will not connect!! They are totally dead!!!

Speedy

Life is a Game

on Sep 14, 2006

Did they make 30 million dollars with eDonkey? I thought connecting to eDonkey was free of charge

dnagroove

on Sep 14, 2006

Rapidly dwindling P2P sharing?! I'm definitely not boasting, but claiming that any file sharing culture, of any kind (legal or not), is "dwindling" is ridiculous.

There are dozens more networks, covert and seemingly transparent that no RIAA or any of the film studios seem to be aware of. Nothing is dwindling, I'm half sorry to say (my own software found its way to BitTorrent more than once). The studios and the rest think they have the upper hand, but it's only smart of the file-sharing community to let them think so.

Fourth Letter

on Sep 19, 2006

the real point is that you can never stop file sharing but you can shoot down the big easy programs that give people an illusion of legality , just like home copying , its frowned upon but is overlooked because you arrest the guy on the street corner selling movies and music just to line his pocket. Its disgusting to see the likes of Windowblinds appear with cracks on download sites when it only costs $19.99

AtlanticCanadianScot

on Sep 19, 2006

yep DNA, you are right on the money...however Download.com did post an obituary for P2P Friday last which did leave the impression Zoomba alluded to

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