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eDonkey Pays the Recording Industry $30M
ColinPL writes, "MetaMachine Inc., the firm behind online file-sharing software eDonkey, has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry. The company also agreed to take measures to prevent file sharing by people using previously downloaded versions of the eDonkey software. The eDonkey application now displays the message, 'The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available. Please see eDonkey.com for more details.' After that message is displayed the uninstaller is launched automatically." If you visit edonkey.com, it logs your IP address. How much will the demise of eDonkey matter, given that most who access that P2P network do so using the open-source eMule?
Good thing they paid up. Uncle RIAA thought it would be a shame if "something should happen to their nice office building".
It also logs the page you requested, when you requested it, and your browser. Everyday, they also rotate their logs and compress them for further statistical tracking at a future point!
historically speaking, eMule comes from eDonkey (eStallion) and eHorse (eMare)... Plus is sterile, RIAA likes that
I had another sig before, but this one is better
Uhhh, dumbass, somebody has to *make* that music before you can steal it. eDonkey didn't make that $30 million from people who wanted to hear Creative Commons .oggs of Cory Doctorow blowing his nose.
I declare a subthread for people with prime user id numbers only.
factor 92219: 92219
Plain old FUD .. EVERY friggin website in the world logs your IP address. It's only that, an IP address.
I went there JUST so they would log my IP address. There! Sue me RIAA. I visited a public website. Boo friggin hoo..
Next they'll be sending secret police to my house to @(*$fiu$#(NO CARRIER)
= Grow a brain...
now when I want to know my IP address, I can get a free threatening message with it! awesome.
If you visit edonkey.com, it logs your IP address
I logged onto every one of our servers and lynx'ed to it. just so if someone is actually reading the logs can wonder why they get XX.XX.XX.130,131,132,133,....152.
Vertical
72 CD D7 52 D0 7E D8 47 44 91 D5 84 D1 59 F1 A9-This is my 128bit integer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I haven't turned on my aMule client in months. Downloading now...
They agreed to pay what $30 million dollars???? I cry horseshit! Nobody who actually has $30 million dollars has ever, does ever, or will ever just agree to give it away to someone. Especially something as legally dubious as an RIAA lawsuit.
Most likely they agreed to 'pay' some absurd amount of money knowing full well that barely more than a few thousand dollars would ever be passed to the RIAA under any circumstances. They agree to some sum that they would never have (after all they aren't any different from you and me, gentle Slashdaughters) if there was any posssiblity that they would actually have to come up with the cash. I would guess that 'E-Donkey incorporated' owes $3,000,000,000,000,000 dollars for their 'crime', and the people and programmers who actually were eating all the pizza at E-Donkey's parties don't have to pay anything. As long as they agree to 'be good in the future'.
If the actual people had to pay even 1/1000th of the this absurd amount for their 'crime', then I'll bet that they would be planning serious mayhem on the RIAA lawyers that were personally involved with this bullshit lawsuit.
Look, I'm against violence and horror as much as the next girl, but, in the real world, when you're up against real assholes like the RIAA, then violence and horror goes a long way to 'equalizing' the legal chessboard. Sooner or later the RIAA is going to figure this out. Probably each lawyer will, individually, as they watch their guts drip out onto the floor of their BMW just after winning another extortion lawsuit for downloading 'Yummy, Yummy, Yummy' against that one wrong person.
Keep your fingers crossed.
A lot of people, especially young people, buy music for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the actual music...
:)
You misspelled shallow.
Don't you have someone you'd die for?