Jelsoft
February 11th, 2004, 11:25 AM
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.
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.
Source (http://www.freemule.net/)
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.
Source (http://www.freemule.net/)