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eDonkey shuts down after all
Rumours about eDonkey's stubborn survival are highly overrated, it turned out earlier this week. The peer to peer file sharing network testified before a Senate Committee that it is has ceased to support its network.
The company leashed out against Reuters last week after the news agency reported that the company was facing troubles and had to close its New York office.
Not true, the company responded, we've merely moved. But the website still listed the New York address. And without a peer to peer network, eDonkey is like a grocery store without an entrance.
But don’t' mourn too much over the loss of eDonkey. Parent company still exists and allegedly is working on a new p2p network that no doubt will be shaped to prevent that a recent legal ruling by the US Supreme Court doesn't apply.
The RIAA nfor now has won a battle in the copyright war, but still doesn't look very good in the war.
Tags: RIAA, edonkey, p2p, peer to peer
September 29, 2005 at 11:55 PM | Permalink
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Nice nice. A lot of useful here. good work
Thanks for all.
Posted-by: child | 24 Oct 2005 19:09:37
Good job done. I consider you are not lazy... :)
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Posted-by: Renew | 19 Nov 2005 21:48:04
Really nice.
Posted-by: Renew | 19 Nov 2005 21:51:58
> The RIAA for now has won a battle in the copyright war
BWAAAAhahahahhahahaha... the clueless write about their cluelessness.
The RIAA hasn't won squat that matters. Media points. BFD.
THE Ed2k NETWORK is still fully functional, it has been outside the control of MetaMachine for a long time now -- I could identify no less than *four* entirely different ways to continue using the network unabated, including switching back to readily available old clients, to switching to the Beta, to switching to another Ed2k compatible client entirely.
The RIAA are clueless morons rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic of decrepit copyright laws.
The entire force of the U.S. Federal Government could not stem the flow of alcohol within its own borders, nor has it done a lot to stem the flow of drugs in and out and around the USA -- but the RIAA imagines it can stop the international flow of something as ephemeral as bits and bytes with far less resources at its disposal?
NOT gonna happen. Thanks for the laugh.
Posted-by: Vootie | 13 Sep 2006 05:59:34
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