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29 Sep 2005
The company behind the popular peer-to-peer network eDonkey has announced that the site is to shut down.
In a testimony to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sam Yagan, president of MetaMachine, said that he had informed the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that he would cease to support the network.
The news follows last week's closure of the WinMX file sharing service.
"I would like to make it clear to the Committee that we have replied to the RIAA's cease-and-desist letter and I have personally committed to [RIAA president] Cary Sherman, which I reiterate today, that we are in the process of complying with its request," stated Yagan.
"Therefore I am not here as an active participant in the future of P2P, but rather as one who has thrown in the towel and with no interest in replaying past issues."
Yagan insisted that he was not a "P2P zealot" and was actively seeking to resolve copyright issues. However he questioned the effectiveness of passing legislation against P2P systems, since seven of the top 10 major P2P software companies are located overseas.
Yagan was testifying at a special session of the Judiciary Committee started after the MGM v Grokster hearing, entitled Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World.
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2 big players down in under a month... could be the start of a dry era for music. When will they learn? It would never have happened in the 60s.... :0(
Posted by: hanny 05 Oct 2005
Time to add value to music
In the long gone past, many of albums at least came with decent size art & lyrics you could slap on the wall. The 80's & 90's CD's were date rape - where were the discounts for fans who already bought everything from 7" singles to entire collections prior to disc? where did the art go? In this day and age of innovation and glitz it amazes me that record companies can't asthetically package the music better and in turn give the fans and industry something better. Since they don't get it i guess all you can do is support music and go see a concert. p.s. hey lables! kiss army ring a bell?
Posted by: AudioKing 03 Oct 2005
I never liked forced uploading
If you can shut it down its not true P2P, this is why Gnutella and Gnutella2 are superior.
Posted by: rsmith16384 29 Sep 2005
LiveWire's making changes, too.
Email Battles says LiveWire's coming up with copyright-friendly software. They're guessing the reduced LiveWire traffic will take a lot of heat off Port 6346.
Posted by: Bud Wilson 29 Sep 2005