The company behind popular online file-sharing software eDonkey has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry, according to court ...

"Police blotter" is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: A Philadelphia man with a cable modem is sued by Paramount Pictures for alleged copyright infringement of a ...

MetaMachine Inc., the firm behind popular online file-sharing software eDonkey, has agreed to pay $30 million and cease distribution to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the ...

The young chief executive of MetaMachine, distributor of eDonkey file-sharing software, appeared six months ago before a U.S. Senate committee and said his network--the world's most popular--was ready ...

The music industry claimed another legal victory in its battle against illegal file sharing in Europe on Friday, but the win may not last long. Seven servers that were part of the eDonkey file-sharing ...

A joint police operation in Belgium and Switzerland has been successful in shutting down a popular file-sharing server. Razorback2, part of the Edonkey file-sharing network, held an index of 170 ...

Despite some chest beating by the entertainment industry Wednesday over the shutdown of one of the biggest index servers on the eDonkey network, a raid by Belgian and Swiss police seems to have had ...

Authorities in Belgium and Switzerland on Wednesday arrested the operator of a heavily trafficked server for the eDonkey P-to-P (peer-to-peer) network, seizing its hardware, the Motion Picture ...

eDonkey announced on Tuesday that its peer-to-peer file-sharing software is coming to Mac OS X. Previously, Mac support was available only through a text-based command line interface in the software.

A new study by ISP network service CacheLogic suggests that file swappers around the world are converging on a new favorite technology, possibly in response to pressure by Hollywood studios. Last year ...

IFPI shuts down seven servers responsible for maintaining an index of shared files for people using eDonkey's p-to-p network, but more servers are likely to pop up The music industry claimed another ...