eDonkey shuts down, kills installed clients

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eDonkey shuts down, kills installed clients

by Jordan Running Sep 12th 2006

Today MetaMachine, Inc. settled with the RIAA, agreeing to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright lawsuits from the recording industry. RIAA chairman and chief executive Mitch Bainwol said of the settlement, "With this new settlement, another domino falls, and we have further strengthened the footing of the legal marketplace." Along with the pay-out, MetaMachine has agreed to "take measures to prevent file-sharing by people using previously downloaded versions of the eDonkey software," which sounds like disabling the installed software remotely. The eDonkey web site has been taken down and replaced with a short message warning against illegal downloading with a distinct RIAA flavor ("Your IP address has been logged.") to it. The eDonkey network itself, of course, is decentralized and will live on as long as people keep using it, and given the popularity of eMule and other alternative clients, its vitality does not seem in jeopardy.

Tags: ed2k, edonkey, edonkey2000, filesharing, metamachine, overnet, p2p, riaa, settlement

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

phizm said 7:00PM on 9-12-2006

Long live Bittorrent.

Grant Robertson said 7:23PM on 9-12-2006

Yikes.

dg10050 said 7:23PM on 9-12-2006

http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf

Ryan Carter said 12:40AM on 9-13-2006

eDonkey is such an ass.

Daniel Long said 4:22PM on 9-14-2006

What about a refund of the purchase price?

thekingofconvenience said 11:18AM on 9-15-2006

$30 million payout I don't think you will see a refund

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