Altnet Hooks Up With eDonkey/Overnet

[napho]

Some people are really ticked about this. A kind of Rage Against The MetaMachine.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Oct. 7, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Altnet, a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment (AMEX:BDE), the leading provider of secure digital media via Internet peer-to-peer technologies, announced today that it has entered into a commercial distribution agreement with MetaMachine, Inc., developer of Overnet and eDonkey 2000, two leading peer-to-peer networks. Marking a major step forward for commercializing p2p, the agreement calls for Altnet to distribute secure music, video, software and games, on behalf of artists and rights holders, to Overnet users. MetaMachine is Altnet's latest affiliate in a growing list of distribution partners that include the Kazaa Media Desktop and Excite's My Search Toolbar.

Under the terms of the agreement, MetaMachine will integrate Altnet's TopSearch Gold Icon technology, placing licensed files aggregated by Altnet into preferential placement in the search results on MetaMachine programs. MetaMachine will also incorporate Altnet's payment gateway, which allows their users to simply and securely purchase every TopSearch file they download.

"With TopSearch, Altnet ensures that artists, musicians, and copyright holders are paid when users share and play their files. Altnet also ensures that users who download Gold Icon files they find in TopSearch are guaranteed that the file is high-quality and legal for them to download and share," said Derek Broes, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations of Altnet. "We're thrilled to be working with MetaMachine. Our distribution agreement underscores our mutual commitment to commercializing peer-to-peer networks and making them a place where users and copyright owners can both win," stated Kevin Bermeister, CEO of Altnet.

Added Jed McCaleb, Founder and CTO of MetaMachine, Inc, "We are dedicated to making peer-to-peer a viable and profitable marketing channel for content owners. We hope more content owners will work with us to effectively reach the immense user base in a simple and secure way."




http://www.primezone.com/pages/news_....mhtml?d=46170

[TankGirl]

Originally posted by napho
Added Jed McCaleb, Founder and CTO of MetaMachine, Inc, "We are dedicated to making peer-to-peer a viable and profitable marketing channel for content owners. We hope more content owners will work with us to effectively reach the immense user base in a simple and secure way."

Most of the 'immense' user base uses eMule, not the official eDonkey client, and rightly so. The serverless Overnet used to be a bit more interesting case, but whatever interest I had is now gone. No point donating your bandwidth on 'profitable market channels' of the AltNet kind - much better to give it to the good eMule guys and their non-commercial Kademlia network.

- tg

[TheOnlyBob]

that sucks, i hope it dosent rune it.

[pod]

Originally posted by TankGirl
Most of the 'immense' user base uses eMule, not the official eDonkey client, and rightly so. The serverless Overnet used to be a bit more interesting case, but whatever interest I had is now gone.

'Most' is quite the understatement... my eMule stats say 91% eMule, with regular and hybrid donkey picking up some 7%. Usually it's even more in favour of eMule. If donkey goes commercial, eMule will just split the network, as will the servers. eDonkey has always had some optional spyware.

Serverless eMule has nothing in common with Overnet, so no worries there.