eDonkey Settles For $30 Million
eDonkey is the latest to settle with the majors over claims of copyright infringement. Here's the meat of the article at Billboard.biz:
"As part of the consent judgment, the owners agreed to the court issuing a permanent injunction covering eDonkey, eDonkey 2000 and Overnet, the search software distributed to locate eDonkey files. The injunction requires MetaMachine, Yagan and McCaleb to disable and prevent users from copying or sharing any of the labels' music through software, servers or Web sites owned or controlled by the settling defendants. According to sources close to the litigation, the Web sites are expected to be shut down following entry of the judgment."
The industry's lawsuits against Limewire is pending.
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