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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?
And let's not forget... for Linux, there's the ever-excellent aMule client to access the network.
Basilisk Digital
This is the single most stupid message that I have ever seen. Thease idiots did the right thing, they did die in the hands of a bully.
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The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available.
If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law.
Courts around the world -- including the United States Supreme Court --
have ruled that businesses and individuals can be prosecuted for illegal
downloading.
You are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material.
Your IP address is -removed- and has been logged.
Respect the music, download legally.
Goodbye Everyone.
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So, RIAA is going to sue all of slashdot ?
> nothing to do with the quality of the actual music but have more to do with a certain image or > subculture
... I dunno. Looking back from almost 50, I don't recall ever buying music for "image". If I didn't like it, I didn't buy it.
Hmph
Since RIAA started their vendetta against customers I've bought 2 albums.
Al
(apparently an old fart)
1 in 4 Maine children in struggle with hunger.
from edonkey.com: "If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law." NO SHIT. Now if only it was possible to actually steal music via the internet.
I blame geof's speakers.
I agree.
It seems funny I was reading the Sept. 2006 edition of Reader's Digest this morning, and was drawn to an column "Turning Point" featuring Bob Newhart this month and he had something along those lines to say also.
The article is titled "Finding My Funny Bone", by Bob Newhart.
He was talking about two of his recordings : "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart", and it's sequel, "The Button-Down Mid Strikes Back". The first went to #1 on the Billboard charts, and got between the two recordings, got him three Grammy's that year. He goes on to say that he just recently started getting royalties on the recordings (they came out in 1960), and:
"Lately I have begun to receive royalties on the albums on a quarterly basis. Even as a trained accountant, I'm no exactly sure how they calculate these royalties without all of the financial records and contracts that burned up in The Great Warner's Office Fire of '73. But they apparently have a formula. Just last week, I received a check for $1.18."
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
Rap/Hip-hop music too is often about an image - the clothes, the cars, the attitude, etc. - and not about the quality of the music.
I hope you know that the type of rap and hip-hop you talk about here is the kind which is foisted upon the airwaves by the recording industry, put on by the likes of 50 Cent, Chingy, etc. I used to dislike this genre myself for this reason.
Then a friend turned me on to good hip-hop. Like Common, Hieroglyphics, and Mos Def to name a few, real hip-hip artists who you rarely hear about through the mass publicity of the RIAA. These artists use intelligent beats and mixes combined with intelligent lyrics, often philosophical, and are actually a counterforce to the mass-market version of the genre - Common and Mos Def actually have lyrics about their college educations. If you want a nice starting point, I recommend Like Water for Chocolate or Be by Common, or Black for the First Time by Mos Def.
You dont really get this do you? All the factors are going to be prime.
In Soviet Russia the insensitive clod is YOU!