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bluetailfly3
08-24-2003, 02:55 AM
Source: boycott-riaa.com (http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/7484)

xMule is a clone of the eMule client for the eDonkey filesharing network. It supports Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, and MacOS and Windows versions are under development.

"eMule is a well known P2P client, since it's web based," says Expose. "You click a ed2k link in a web forum, the download starts in the client and this way, you know what you're getting."

It can be used to download just about anything, including movies and music, and therein lies the problem.

Naturally, if you're seriously into p2p, you'll want to check it out, but when you reach the web page you'll see, "Slashdot shut down the site far faster and more effectively than any gov'ment agency because the last 5 companies i have contacted have said xmule is a 'high risk server' and the backup servers i was planning to implement literally within MINUTES of being slashdotted have since canceled the accounts and refunded my money."

Read Full Article HERE (http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/7484)

Roadblock
08-24-2003, 04:22 AM
I found this comment interesting:

And Oh Yeh - EarthStation 5? It's a glitzed up, second class app that's using its location (Palestine), its contrived public defiance of the MPAA and the gullibility of the mainstream media to promote something that would otherwise receive very little attention.


;)

pogue
08-24-2003, 09:17 AM
Why would they go over xMule and not Emule or the other clones? Thats scary.