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BitTorrent's Loss is eDonkey's Gain?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 30, 2005 @01:50AM from the rolling-with-the-punches dept.

MrAndrews writes "According to this BBC article, users in South Korea, Italy, Germany and Spain are using BitTorrent less frequently these days, after lawsuits by the movie industry. However: "While the use of BitTorrent has fallen, file sharers have moved to an alternative network called eDonkey". "

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Re:This is news? by Nuclear+Elephant · 2005-08-30 02:00 · Score: 1, Troll

eMule/aMule/etc. are much cooler because you can easily mod them to leech without having to give anything back to the community. As I understand it, this is why the FSF also wants to slam eDonkey, as it's hurting open source.