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Peer-to-Peer Software Firm eDonkey Announces Plans to Go Legit

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 29, 2005 - 4:14am.
Washington - eDonkey, currently one of the most-popular file-sharing networks in the world, announced its intention at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on file-sharing Wednesday to convert to a legal for-pay service, in the wake of new litigation threats from the recording industry, InformationWeek reported. "Because we cannot afford to fight a lawsuit -- even one we think we would win -- we have instead prepared to convert eDonkey's user base to an online content retailer operating in a 'closed' P2P environment," said Sam Yagan, the president of eDonkey distributor MetaMachine, during his testimony at the hearing. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently sent cease-and-desist letters to a number of file-sharing firms, emboldened by the recent Supreme Court ruling that found P2P software providers liable for copyright infringement. The letters have also been credited with shutting down the distribution site of WinMX, another popular file-sharing service.
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