No more "hee haw": eDonkey taken to the glue factory

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After the Supreme Court ruled against Grokster last year, an unknown meteorological object was spotted in the sky. It wasn't a bird and it wasn't a plane, but it was falling—fast. It was a hammer.

This year, the RIAA law-hammer fell hard on file-swapping sites. Companies like iMesh struggled to go legit, while Kazaa coughed up more than $100 million to the RIAA and pledged to mend its ways. Now eDonkey has gone bust, coughing up $30 million in exchange for not being sued.

MetaMachine, Inc, the small startup behind eDonkey, had been doing well. File-sharing on their network last year accounted for nearly one-third of all Internet traffic and revenue from advertising and software sales topped $2 million a year. Unfortunately, most of that revenue flowed in because users wanted to swap copyrighted material. After the Grokster decision, MetaMachine found itself on shaky legal ground.

The eDonkey site has been shuttered, and now says only, "If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law." It also displays your IP address and warns that it has been logged. The logging is only a scare tactic, of course; there's nothing illegal about visiting the company's website, or even in downloading the software.
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Source: arstechnica


The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available.

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 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and has been logged.

Respect the music, download legally.
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Respect the music, download legally.
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How about they respect the consumer and this problem will go away on its own.

Its always funny to watch clueless companies and organizations flail around on their death bed, making as much noise as possible before they become irrelavant.

Sorry RIAA, MPAA your business model is outdated and you are soon for the scrap-heap of time.
 
BTech said:
Why u pointing fingers at me??:confused:
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Honestly - I have no idea - I must have copied the wrong link from the search result page.

Sorry, I've changed it. :o
 
Respect the music, download legally.
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Disrespect the music and buy it from a major music label.

"If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law."
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I've never had the time to go breaking into music or movie studios to steal their master copies.
 
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