The eDonkey file sharing network went bankrupt and shut down
The eDonkey network is owned by the American company MetaMachine Inc. Last fall, she was among the seven companies that received threatening letters from the RIAA record label association. In these letters, network operators were asked to close their services and pay a reasonable fine, otherwise the documents will be filed with the court.
As a result of the negotiations that started, the operators of the networks BearShare, i2Hub, WinMX, and Grokster agreed with these conditions and stopped working. Today is the turn of eDonkey.
Under the terms of the agreement, MetaMachine immediately terminates the work of eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, Overnet and other versions of its software. The site stopped working and a threatening message appeared on it, the text of which begins with the words: "If you steal music or movies, then you are breaking the law."
To avoid a possible trial, the company agreed to pay a fine of $ 30 million and take all possible measures to prevent the work of already downloaded client programs. And they have already begun to take these measures.
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According to the owners of the eDonkey program, the client software refuses to work. When downloading, it displays a message that the network is closed. If you click “OK”, the program tries to uninstall itself. The command for destructive behavior arrives to the client from the central servers of the system. You can avoid the procedure if you disconnect the Internet connection, then start the eDonkey program, wait until it can establish the connection, and only then connect to the Internet - in this case, the system works fine. However, there are very few online users online. Obviously, most of them turned out to be stupid enough to click “OK”.
Most likely, users will now switch to using another peer-to-peer network, for example, BitTorrent or eMule . Alternatively, you can download the “clean” version of the eDonkey Lite client.
Several operators of P2P networks have still not reached an agreement with record labels. Warez P2P , Limewire and Soulseek are among them. In August, the RIAA sued the network operator Limewire. The hearing has not yet begun.
As a result of the negotiations that started, the operators of the networks BearShare, i2Hub, WinMX, and Grokster agreed with these conditions and stopped working. Today is the turn of eDonkey.
Under the terms of the agreement, MetaMachine immediately terminates the work of eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, Overnet and other versions of its software. The site stopped working and a threatening message appeared on it, the text of which begins with the words: "If you steal music or movies, then you are breaking the law."
To avoid a possible trial, the company agreed to pay a fine of $ 30 million and take all possible measures to prevent the work of already downloaded client programs. And they have already begun to take these measures.
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According to the owners of the eDonkey program, the client software refuses to work. When downloading, it displays a message that the network is closed. If you click “OK”, the program tries to uninstall itself. The command for destructive behavior arrives to the client from the central servers of the system. You can avoid the procedure if you disconnect the Internet connection, then start the eDonkey program, wait until it can establish the connection, and only then connect to the Internet - in this case, the system works fine. However, there are very few online users online. Obviously, most of them turned out to be stupid enough to click “OK”.
Most likely, users will now switch to using another peer-to-peer network, for example, BitTorrent or eMule . Alternatively, you can download the “clean” version of the eDonkey Lite client.
Several operators of P2P networks have still not reached an agreement with record labels. Warez P2P , Limewire and Soulseek are among them. In August, the RIAA sued the network operator Limewire. The hearing has not yet begun.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4397/
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