Filesharing Review > eDonkey Beats BitTorrent on P2P War
[My Other Side of the Stories] eDonkey, its rival who actually have more power to search for content, but similar speedy download features, is now used more than BitTorrent. eDonkey’s rise comes after highly publicized Hollywood legal campaigns against BitTorrent hubs, which have resulted in the disappearance of many of the most popular sites using that technology.
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[Connected Internet News | Broadband Mobile Gaming News] eDonkey Taken Over From BitTorrent As The Most Popular P2P Network: Last year, BitTorrent traffic accounted for nearly half of all Internet traffic, but in response to Hollywood going after BitTorrent users, many users have switched to eDonkey which is now the number one filesharing network.
[Gadgetopia] P2P Whack-a-mole: The CacheLogic report ranked South Korea, which has the highest percentage of high-speed broadband users, as the country with the most eDonkey users, along with Italy, Germany, and Spain. The United States also saw a resurgence in the popularity of the Gnutella file-sharing network, which experienced a similar drop in popularity after music companies cracked down on its usage.
[Legalnewswatch.com] Hollywood Movie Studios Take Action Against BitTorrent & eDonkey: The Motion Picture Association of America and its members, which include Disney, Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers, are working with law enforcement and civil authorities around the world to shut down servers on BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect networks.
[Gigaom.com] Om Maliks Broadband Blog » Why P2P is Here to Stay: The study looks at four major networks - Bit Torrent, Gnutella, eDonkey and FastTrack. Video now accounts for 61.44% of file sharing activity on four major P2p networks, while audio is only 11.34%.“Peer-to-peer file sharing is affecting children’s morality and well-being by giving them access to pornography and encouraging the everyday theft of music.” says Sen.
[Net-security.org] HNS - Hollywood to sue server operators behind BitTorrent, eDonkey: The lawsuits are aimed at disrupting the unauthorized distribution of movie files through BitTorrent and eDonkey, two popular online file-swapping services, the source associated with the effort The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
[Iggy.gnomeblog.com] Iggy Uncensored :: MPAA targets core BitTorrent, eDonkey users: The Hollywood group said it is also targeting the operators of Direct Connect servers, a technology that works much like the old Napster. The FBI and the Recording Industry Association of America have previously launched criminal and civil actions against Direct Connect operators." MPAA targets core BitTorrent, eDonkey users
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