eMule started off in 2002 as an open source freeware, user friendly and efficient alternative to eDonkey that runs in its network. eMule’s development relies on a growing team of outside developers each sharing their skills and knowledge to improve eMule’s features and reliability.
premium rate numbers without the user being aware.
Now Firstway Medien GmbH is claiming ownership of the eMule trademark and is threatening the German eMule website Emule.de with a cease and desist order demanding it to stop using their domain name. As other eMule sites are at now at risk, the eMule-project.net team along with the owners of eMule.de are aiming to defy Firstway Medien GmbH and remove the eMule trademark. A new website has
been setup in an aim to get the financial resources to fight off the culprit and
inform users of its progress. eranros submitted the following news via our news submit :
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In May 2002 eMule was born as a new project by someone known as Merkur. His goal was to develop a new client for the eDonkey2000 network, one which has to be distinctly different from what was known til then: user friendly, free, open source, efficient and with a nice design. Soon after the start more coders started to join the project forming a team caring for a stable network and continuously improving eMule. Living for the idea an entire community now shares their skills and knowledge making eMule the most reliable and feature rich P2P client world wide. Today over 2 million users and a steadily growing numbers give testimony for this. The threat eMule’s popularity has drawn the attention of greedy people trying to gain profit from its well-known name. Using every shady opportunity, the first dialers trying to rip off unsuspecting users already appeared early in 2003. Promising new versions or tools for eMule their only intention was to lure people in downloading their software and having them to pay for a faked service or one already offered for free. Firstway Medien GmbH plays a major role in this. Their dialer application called “Masterconnector” has been advertised on the web site eselfilme.de/org/com/net for a very long time under various disguises. Currently these pages are offering an eMule mod, which corrupts parts of Window’s winsock forcing the user to pay money for a “license” or to live with a crippled and irremovable eMule mod. Current situation On the first January 2004 Firstway Medien GmbH represented by Frhr. von Gravenreuth & Bernhard Syndikus moved to attack. They started off with one of the biggest German eMule sites, eMule.de by threatening them with an injunction and demanding that they stop using their domain name. As virtually all web pages using the name eMule are now in danger of the same fate, the eMule-project.net team decided to work together with the owners of eMule.de to defy Firstway Medien GmbH and to delete the eMule trademark. Now that they have shown their true intentions, an expensive legal confrontation is inevitable. Hoping to get the necessary financial resources to win this fight we created this page to keep you informed about the progress. The freemule website can bee accessed
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It must be a horrible experience to put a lot of work as a team on a project, offer it to the public for free and then find out someone steals its name, tries making a profit out of it and demands the original owners to stop using the name they created in the first place! I would recommend only downloading from trusted and known official sources, particularly those that use a modem. Keeping up-to-date virus definitions and using anti-malware tools such as Spybot also reduces the likelihood of running a costly dialler.
Source: freemule.net
8 Comments
[edited by DiggnSaeg on 12.02.2004 04:20]
these 'lawyers' need to get bashed by the emule community! 
This iz an outrage. Kindda like trying to steal free condoms from a "Prevent AIDS" campaign and then sell them to other people. GO MULE` 
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