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 has been logged.

Respect the music, download legally.

MetaMachine, operator of the P2P-network eDonkey and publishers of the Client software of the same name has given up! Under the address edonkey.com is now the brittle reference to the attitude of the service as well as a legal note, according to which one offends against the law, if one steals. With the following threat that the IP address of the visitor is stored, it retires also eDonkey as one the last commercial P2P services. The mourning over this parting holds itself measurably within limits. The Client software eDonkey 2000 was replaced in its meaning already long by the open SOURCE software eMule and is now in its newer versions absolutely useless. Only older versions of the Client software should be now still usable. Nevertheless does not show the eDonkey traces. At present in the P2P-Network still has 4.3 million users. Now compare this to March when it only had about 3.5 million.

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The parent company of popular file-sharing network eDonkey has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a copyright infringement case brought by six music labels, according to court documents filed this week.

The settlement follows a federal district court ruling earlier this week that dealt what appears to be final blow to MetaMachine’s peer-to-peer (P2P) client eDonkey; the eDonkey Web site has since been taken down.

A judge in New York’s southern district ruled Monday that eDonkey facilitated illegal activity by allowing users to swap copyrighted material over the eDonkey2000 network. Another MetaMachine creation, a decentralized P2P network called Overnet, was also ruled illegal.

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A man who duped customers into believing they could download copyrighted MP3 files without violating the law has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that his claims were false.

Cashier Myricks, Jr., operator of mp3downloadcity.com, agreed to pay $15,240 to the 611 customers who signed up to use the service to exchange music, movie and game files.

The FTC said in a statement that Myricks is also barred from misrepresentations about P2P (define) file-sharing products or services and must explain the civil and criminal liability risks of downloading copyrighted material without the owner’s permission.

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Germany is well known as an eDonkey2000 safe-haven. By many accounts it’s the most popular method of sharing information online; exceeding even the mighty BitTorrent protocol. Some of the most coveted file-sharing software has its origins from Germany, namely the highly popular and open source eDonkey2000 client, eMule.

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Just when you thought you’d seen everything P2P is useful for. A recently discovered Internet worm, “Nugache-A” is spreading widely via AIM as ell as MSN Messenger.

In and of themselves, new internet worms pop up too frequently to be news anymore. What is significant about this worm is the way in which it can be remotely controlled, via P2P.

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edonkey-it.com was launched as an alternative to ed2k-it.com, one of the sites hammered by Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which, like its Big Four Organized Music brethren, is hell-bent on making sure you do, and buy, exactly what it tells you.

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You can downlaod emule free from the emule project. You can download emule free here. Emule is free as in free. Check out the emule page as listed above and download emule free. Keep emule free because emule is fre for download.

Join the ED2K revolution. The largest file sharing community on the net, get in the party! eDonkey is an application that allows you to share and download files with millions of other people across the globe. It is fast and easy to use with the most sophisticated file sharing technology available.

What is eDonkey?

eDonkey is an application that allows you to share and download files with millions of other people across the globe. It is fast and easy to use with the most sophisticated file sharing technology available.The newest version of eDonkey2000 connects to both the eDonkey2000 and OverNet networks. Both of these networks use the same protocols to share files. The biggest difference between the two is OverNet is serverless, while eDonkey2000 is server-based.

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