eDonkey's ass is shut
RIAA hee haws
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 13 September 2006, 06:40
ONLINE FILESHARING outfit eDonkey has been forced to close
and pay $30 million to the recording industry for ever
existing.MetaMachine, which owned eDonkey, was one of
seven outfits to receive shut down letters by the Recording
Industry Association of America. BearShare, i2Hub, WinMX, and
Grokster have reached similar agreements. Warez P2P, Limewire and
Soulseek have not made any agreement yet.
A spokesRIAA described the eDonkey closure as another domino
falling, although that is usually seen as a bad thing, so we think
he might have got a bit mixed up.
Under the agreement MetaMachine agreed to immediately cease
distributing eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, and Overnet. It has also said
that it will take steps to stop punters using previously downloaded
versions of the eDonkey software.
The eDonkey Web site has a sign up saying that the
eDonkey2000 Network was no longer available. It also has
the RIAAs requested mantra that people who steal music or movies
are breaking the law.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060912/ap_on_hi_te/edonkey_settlement
