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Associated Press
September 12, 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/music/0,71771-0.html?tw=wn_technology_12
The New-York based company MetaMachine has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits on their online file-sharing software eDonkey. MetaMachine received a letter warning them to shut down or prepare to face lawsuits. Top executives of MetaMachine, Sam Yagan and Jed McCaleb, agreed to end distribution of eDonkey and other software versions. The eDonkey website showed a message informing visitors the website was no longer available and that "people who steal music or movies are breaking the law."
This affects anyone in the music industry whose music was being illegally downloaded. This is a good thing because music sites such as eDonkey, LimeWire, and other file-sharing services were allowing music to be illegally downloaded, but now the end is coming to sites that allow illegal downloads.
The ethical issue addressed is illegally downloading music. It is unfair to people in the music industry to have their music illegally downloaded, but now that many of those websites that allow illegal downloading are being shut down, music artists will not have to worry about their music being downloaded illegally.
This impacts society because people who had been downloading music illegally will no longer be able to do so.
September 12, 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/music/0,71771-0.html?tw=wn_technology_12
The New-York based company MetaMachine has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits on their online file-sharing software eDonkey. MetaMachine received a letter warning them to shut down or prepare to face lawsuits. Top executives of MetaMachine, Sam Yagan and Jed McCaleb, agreed to end distribution of eDonkey and other software versions. The eDonkey website showed a message informing visitors the website was no longer available and that "people who steal music or movies are breaking the law."
This affects anyone in the music industry whose music was being illegally downloaded. This is a good thing because music sites such as eDonkey, LimeWire, and other file-sharing services were allowing music to be illegally downloaded, but now the end is coming to sites that allow illegal downloads.
The ethical issue addressed is illegally downloading music. It is unfair to people in the music industry to have their music illegally downloaded, but now that many of those websites that allow illegal downloading are being shut down, music artists will not have to worry about their music being downloaded illegally.
This impacts society because people who had been downloading music illegally will no longer be able to do so.
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