Chalk up another victory for the recording industry in its campaign to drive peer-to-peer networks popular with pirates out of business. The makers of eDonkey, a popular file-swapping program, have agreed to pay the industry $30-million—and to stop distributing their software—to dodge potentially severe copyright-infringement lawsuits.
MetaMachine, a New York firm that owns eDonkey, was one of seven companies put on warning last fall by industry lawyers. Several of those companies—including the makers of BearShare, Grokster, i2Hub, and WinMX—have already reached settlements similar to MetaMachine’s deal, reports the Associated Press. —Brock Read
