BitTorrent's Loss is eDonkey's Gain?

MrAndrews writes "According to this BBC article, users in South Korea, Italy, Germany and Spain are using BitTorrent less frequently these days, after lawsuits by the movie industry. However: "While the use of BitTorrent has fallen, file sharers have moved to an alternative network called eDonkey". "

This is news?

[thc69]

I was under the impression that eDonkey is what everybody uses for file sharing these days, and that BitTorrent was mostly used for software distribution (Free and Open Source, mostly).

don't spoil it

[Anonymous Coward]

shhhhhh

Pffft eDonkey

[roman_mir]

I moved from bittorrent to IRC. Now that's progress!

Funny...

[cecille]

I moved from eDonkey / eMule to bit torrent...Is it back in style again?

Wouldn't this be?

[Anonymous Coward]

"While the use of BitTorrent has fallen, file sharers have moved to an alternative network called eDonkey"

Shouldn't this say that users are moving BACK to alternative newtworks like eDonkey?

You'd have thought

[Ixne]

... that the movie industry moguls had played Whack-a-Mole at the amusement parks before and learned something. Guess not.

In other news

[BlackCobra43]

Confused, the MPAA and RIAA have begun massively suing farms all across America.

Every movie recently released is secretly porn

[Mr Guy]

At least, that was the impression I came to after I tried to use eDonkey for a while. After a half dozen or so downloads, I finally said screw it and went to Blockbuster.

I figure, in a way, I'm doing Blockbuster a favor. I typically watch movies only once or twice, so I'm just taking their "No Late Fees" policy to the extreme. They are pretty clear that the return refers to the rental, and doesn't terminate your right to view. So I figure as long as I don't distribute I can maintain a moral ambiguity long enough to justify ripping the movie and returning it, on time, to watch when it's more convenient. That way, unlike with a movie purchase, they have the hard copy to rent to someone else, and it's back in the store the day. As long as I don't distribute, it seems to be exactly the same as established precedent law on time shifting.

Flawed logic, perhaps, but a nifty bit of justification I'd say.

I hate to be a stick in the mud, but...

[th3space]

If they keep *telling* the various special interest groups what we're using to rape their respective industries, no fucking wonder there are new rounds of lawsuits every time large groups of people jump from one sinking ship to another...

Bastard media, be on our side for once.

BitTorrent usage in S. Korea

[Rude Turnip]

What the article fails to mention is that in South Korea, only old people are using BT now.

Re:Every movie recently released is secretly porn

[MisterMurphy]

That sure was a lot of fancy words. I'm sold.

Whack a mole

[the_Bionic_lemming]

Bet the Folks at RIAA and MPAA thought it was fun to play whack a mole when they were kids!

See It's Karma! First you have fun whacking the game, Now you're fighting for your lives attempting to whack any file sharing out there!

Ooh, It's Napster! WHACK! OOOH it's KAZAA! WHACK! OOOH IT'S BITTORRENT ! WHACK! OOOH IT'S EDONKEY! WHACK!

shhhhh!!!

[vettemph]

Why does slashdot keep letting the cat out of the bag? The first rule of P2P is don't talk about P2P.

One Word....

[DigitalJeremy]

FTP.

The ORIGINAL file sharing protocol. P2P's come and go - FTP will remain mighty!!

I was addicted to pirated movies

[WormholeFiend]

I downloaded so many of them, that virtually spent all my time burning them to CDs and DVDs.

Eventually I realized that I had no time left to actually watch any of it, so I deleted all my collection.

Now I have more time, but no movies to watch.

Re:Every movie recently released is secretly porn

[KDan]

Maybe we could harvest that spinnning to produce energy... with the fabulous numbers of outrageous claims published every day on slashdot, there's probably enough spinning to solve the energy crisis!

Daniel

Re:Pffft eDonkey

[squoozer]

I moved from BitTorrent to writting the ones and zeros down on bits of paper and posting them to people. That really is progress.

Re:You'd have thought

[computational super]

like police departments and burgerly

Hmmm... yes, I've seen a lot of "burgerly" police officers, but most of them are more "donutly" in my experience.

Re:Every movie recently released is secretly porn

[BobTheLawyer]

Unless Napoleon won and I didn't notice, no French law is binding elsewhere in Europe.

I'm not a porn expert, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

"...I tried to use eDonkey for a while. After a half dozen or so downloads, I finally said screw it..."

I'm not sure you're actually suppose to screw a donkey.

Re:Every movie recently released is secretly porn

[tolkienfan]

Hear that?

That's the sound of me packing for France.

Oh wait - isn't France full of French people?

Never mind...

Re:Every movie recently released is secretly porn

[murr]

could you please explain the difference between "Anarchist" and "Libertarian?"

I like Kim Stanley Robinson's explanation that a libertarian is an anarchist who wants police protection from his slaves.

Re:This is news?

[geekee]

"In other news, the MPAA, RIAA, and similar organizations are still stumbling around like friggin morons, trying to kill all file sharing because it is fundamentally evil. God fobrbid they change their business model to avoid becoming obsolete."

In other news, Congress repeals all laws regarding theft. Shopowners are told that shoplifting is now legal, and they should change their obsolete business model.