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eDonkey Tells Congress It's Throwing in the Towel
An anonymous reader writes "Sam Yagen, President of eDonkey, testified at the Judiciary committee's hearing 'Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World'. It was there he told the committee that he is throwing in the towel. 'The Grokster standard requires divining a company's intent, the decision was essentially a call to litigate. This is critical because most startup companies just don't have very much money. Whereas I could have managed to pay for a summary judgment hearing under Betamax, I simply couldn't afford the protracted litigation needed to prove my case in court under Grokster. Without that financial ability, exiting the business was our only option despite my confidence that we never induced infringement and that we would have prevailed under the Grokster standard.'"
If you can shut it down its not true P2P, this is why Gnutella and Gnutella2 are superior.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
eDonkey wasn't very good anyway. sorry to say. eMule rocks!
music - http://www.subatomicglue.com
Finally eDonkey will be freed from leechers and kilometric queues! :D
Or to rephrase: I couldn't ever download anything from eDonkey so, who cares? I'm glad we got rid of such an awful "service".
"Foundation and Earth" seemed to indicate that even the Mule's interference was preplanned from the very beginning by Daneel Something-something (the robot from that series that start with "Caves of Steel"). "Prelude to Foundation" seemed to go further and suggest that Seldon and robo-dude colluded on the whole thing, and that the "inaccuracies" in Seldon's psychohistorical forumlas would be used to advance the real agenda. Whatever it was. I didn't care by that point because I hate needless cross-overs.
Of course, I like to pretend Asimov never wrote FaE or anything after that, so take everything with a few moles of NaCl (or whatever; I think I flunked chem but I can't remember that semester).