A major part of the online battle has been fought in two Manhattan offices, where file-sharing site eDonkey fends off attacks from Overpeer’s cyber army.
Although Val Thomas and Jed McCaleb have never met, their careers have been locked in a hostile embrace for much of the last two years. From his office in Midtown Manhattan, Thomas commands a virtual army of more than 4 million simulated humans that fed a steady diet of fake songs, films and other digital goods to unsuspecting downloaders.
One of his prime targets has been the eDonkey file-sharing network, a hotbed of online piracy.
