Spain, though part of Europe, seems to be worlds apart as the only country that has realized the difference between piracy and illegal file-sharing.

For Raul N. Orejuda Garcia, Magistrate Court judge of Mercantile number 7, ruled recently that "P2P networks, as a mere transmission of data between Internet users, does not violate, in principle, any right protected by the Intellectual Property Law."

In particular, he said that P2P transfers are not one of the "clear and specific behaviors that the law forbids, in particular reproduction, distribution and public communication without authorization."

The case was part of a suit brought by a coalition of the country’s entertainment industry against eD2K website elrincondejesus, the owner of which rightly pointed out that it only provided links to content much like Google or any of the other search engines out there.

“As you know Elrincondejesus.com never had advertising (or has now)," he said. "I’m innocent and the only thing that I have done is provided links to other sites, like thousands of search engines in the world.”

The case is certainly a departure from the ruling against Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay which made the same argument, but was convicted for the facilitation of copyright infringement nonetheless.

“Adding a work or video recording to eMule, that has previously been converted to a computer file, compatible with that program, is not an act of reproduction,” reads the ruling. "Copying is not a profitable use, or collective, as these two terms refer to the subsequent use made of the work once downloaded, after the copy. "

The court also says that illegal distribution requires something "tangible" to exist, like a website, and on which the actual sharing must occur. This doesn’t happen in P2P where the transfer of data occurs between individuals.

It recognizes the possibility that unauthorized public communication, or distribution, of copyrighted material may have occurred, but that it’s difficult to prove being that it "may well be possible that the file-sharing was with one person."

The case echoes a similar ruling by Spanish Judge Paz Aldecoa back in November of 2006 who found that since there was "“no talk of money or any other compensation beyond the sharing of material available among various users" then P2P didn’t therefore violate the tenets of the country’s copyright laws since it was only about obtaining "copies for private use" which is legal.

It may also bolster concerns by the Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus which placed Spain on its “2009 International Piracy Watch List." It complained that “P2P piracy is widely perceived as an acceptable cultural phenomenon, and the situation is exacerbated by a government policy that has essentially decriminalized illicit P2P file-sharing.”

Is making a distinction between those who download for profit and those who don’t really decriminalization? We always take into account the motives behind crimes and punish accordingly. That’s why we have various degrees of murder, theft, and even assault vis a vis "hate crimes."

Why should P2P be any different?

Stay tuned.

[PC via TF]

jared@zeropaid.com

Sometimes, it takes a long time for a new version of eMule to be released. Other times, it takes only a couple of short months. In this case, it only took two months for a new version of eMule to be released.

“Barely two and a half months have passed,” writes the eMule development team, “and yet another new eMule version is on the horizon. 0.49b continues to complete the agenda of its predecessor in the 0.49 series. This means further optimizations for Kad and more important immunity against recently researched routing attacks, several improvements of the GUI for Vista users, a new UPnP implementation, easier connecting to Kad for new users and fixing of an important bug which slipped into the last version.”

The updates fixes numerous security issues and bugs, but maintains the major improvements from the previous version. A changelog was also released. Here are some of the highlights:

• Added a new search method option “Automatic” which lets eMule choose which search method to use. eMule will select either Servers (Local) or Kad, based on which network we are connected to and some other indicators if connected to both networks.
• Implemented a special nodes.dat version, which is more suited for mass distribution without causing significant additional traffic for the included nodes. This hopefully allows us to add a nodes.dat to the installer, so that new user can connect to Kad without having to connect to servers or downloading a nodes.dat themself
• Implemented an alternate method to estimate the total user count in the Kad network, which is not based on our local routing table. Its experimental and only shown in the network dialog (double click the world icon in the status bar)
• Several changes were made to Kad in order to defy routing attacks researched by University of Minnesota guys [Peng Wang, James Tyra, Eric Chan-Tin, Tyson Malchow, Denis Foo Kune, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim], in particular:
  • Kad contacts will only be able to update themself in others routing tables if they provide the proper key (supported by 0.49a+ nodes) in order to make it impossible to hijack them
  • Kad uses now a three-way-handshake (or for older version a similar check) for new contacts, making sure they do not use a spoofed IP
  • Unverified contacts are not used for routing tasks and a marked with a special icon in the GUI
• Fixed: Memory leak in context menus.

Perhapse the biggest improvement was the second item in the highlights because a concern for some eMule users was that if all the servers shut down, will people have to get a nodes.dat file so they can get connected to the Kad network?

Basically, Kad works by users connecting to an IP address on a network. When that user connects to that IP address, others can connect to the network by connecting to the users IP address. Often the simplest way to connect to Kad is simply connect to an ED2K server which will frequently have plenty of users connecting to the Kad network as well – thus making it easy to connect to the Kad network.

If you don’t connect to a server, you can download a nodes.dat file which contains a number of IP addresses. When a user uses that nodes.dat file, the hope is that one of those IP addresses, at least, is connected to the network so as to establish a connection in the network. Afterwards, eMule just remembers several IP addresses so that if the client is shut down for a period of time, it just looks up those addresses when it is started up again at a later time.

It appears that this improvement bi-passes all of this and allows users to simply connect to the Kad network without either having to download a nodes.dat file or connect to an existing ED2K server. It seems eMule keeps getting better and better.

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There’s plenty of servers located in the Netherlands and BREIN is working hard to remove them. Obviously, when they managed to convince the ISPs to disconnect the Razorback 3.* servers, they championed it as a major victory. Is it really a major victory for them to removing less then half a dozen ED2K servers? We spoke to Peerates on the matter given that they have kept a good eye on the network.

ZeroPaid: Near as I can tell, Peerates have kept close tabs with the eDonkey2000 community – particularly with the servers. BREIN, no doubt, would say that the shutdown of the Razorback 3.* servers was a huge victory against the eDonkey2000 community. From where you are sitting, would you view this as a major loss to the eDonkey2000 community? Also, what does the loss of the Razorback servers mean to the community at large?

Peerates: It’s true these servers contributed a lot to the operation of the network, but it is not necessary. No server is really needed since the KAD protocol is functional in most eDonkey clients. Also, in Europe, [the servers] disappearance does not cause the same emotion like when the real razorback was cut, in 2006. The fact is we are moving towards a situation where there is really no more valid online server, on the network.

The BREIN welcomes these actions, but one wonders if the objective is really the fight against the exchanges of numeric counterfeits, because it seems to us that despite the gradual disappearance of servers, it has never been so easy and fast to get an illicit copy of recent commercial content. Maybe, it can be necessary to consider another approach to solve this problem, because the servers themselves do not seem to be more dangerous for the audiovisual industry than Google can be… and even if there are no more servers, the Kad protocol provides everything the users need to connect to the network. it is possible to close few servers, but how does one, at least, close 10 million of edk/kad users?

We feel that certain EU countries, such as Spain, Italy or France, are very committed to the use of edonkey network. Most of these users disappear from statistics related to servers, but continue to connect to the network with KAD. the disappearance of the last big servers represent perhaps the disappearance of an emblem, but surely not the end of the edonkey network.

ZeroPaid: What about the number of servers? There was a large number of servers before the Big Bang servers were shut down. During the time, there was the major initiative by TV Underground to revitalize the network with new servers with hopes that others would follow suit. With the Razorback servers currently out of commission, how have the number of servers done these days compared to before?

Peerates: Most servers are currently offline and those who try to remain may also disappear very quickly. it seem to us it’s very difficult to maintain an edk server (not limited) online today. this situation was predictable, it was unrealistic to think that the eDonkey network can be maintained freely while the audiovisual industry spent a lot of money to fight against the network, but this is not the first time that the network is seriously disturbed. So, it is probably that, once again, it [eDonkey2000] will be reborn from its ashes one way or another.

At this time, only 6 or 7 servers are already online and the Peerates servers list is already updated daily. Unfortunately, these servers are not the most powerful, and we don’t know how much time they could stay in the scene. The edk.peerates.net website also gives some fresh news about the edonkey servers. Peerates will continue to issue information on this subject and we currently adapting our stat’s processes with the goal to integrate the KAD data. But the users should no longer use the servers uless they know exactly what they are doing, and the best thing to do for most users is to use only the kad network, at least for a time. (Indeed: it is always possible to see some new server(s), again in the future.)

ZeroPaid: With the rise of Kademlia, some might suggest that the eDonkey2000 servers would eventually fade away leaving only Kad. First of all, do you agree with this assessment? What would happen if all the eDonkey2000 servers really did go away eventually? Is there a future for eDonkey2000 servers the way things are going?

Peerates: It seems to us that the ed2k network is being reassigned to total decentralization by using the Kad protocol only and this process began a while ago now. So, the future of the files exchanged on the eDonkey network seems now to go only through KAD. But the main problem with KAD is that we have no overall vision of its users and content exchanged. It’s very easy to consider the servers disappearance as a victory [for BREIN], but even if the servers are down, the users are already online …and files already downloadable.

But we can consider another way for the eDonkey servers [to stay online].

The only way to maintain an online server, is to ensure that it respects the law and which doesn’t index the illicit copies of commercial content. It’s not very easy to do that, but the Peerates team are trying to build a model that allows people to run a eDonkey server while respecting the law. Because we believe since a long time in the uses of eDonkey under strictly lawful, without negative judgment on the illicit use which can be done with this p2p network. What we are interested in is exploiting the free and open-source based technologies, with free contents. Edonkey gives the power to distribute content to millions of people, for a ridiculously low cost and in total freedom. Lots of people are not ready to do without and it’s a real opportunity to continue to develop the ‘free’ offering on this p2p network. And a good way to impose a free p2p to the industry is that the quality of the free content available on p2p becomes better than the quality of commercial content. We can observe a change of this kind in action, when we compare windows vista with some linux distributions, for example. This is true too for a lot of software like mysql or apache. We just have to make it equally true for music and movies, and in a context of legal exchanges of free content, server operators could find again their interest in operating an ED2K server. Peerates is trying to work in this direction.

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We would like to thank Peerates for taking the time to answer a few questions about the eDonkey2000 story.

The eDonkey 2000 community suffered another casualty on their network last week. It seems that the Dutch Anti-piracy organization BREIN has shut down “the last of the Razorback servers” This is according to a press release (Google translated) the organization issued last week.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the eDonkey2000 network has been shut down – far from it. Users can still easily connect to the network through other servers featured on trusted white-lists like Peerates. Failing this, there is always source exchange and the Kademlia network that will help many eMule users connect to each other.

From the BREIN press release:

The last of the so-called Razorback servers this week at the request of BREIN offline by its Dutch hosting provider. Other Dutch hosting providers had earlier Razorback 3.0, Razorback 3.2 and 3.3 completed Razorback. Now is also the canvas for Razorback 3.1 cases. The Razorback servers were important links to support the p2p-uitwisselnetwerk eDonkey. Razorback 3.1 was the largest of its kind and offered more than 350,000 users access to the eDonkey network. The vast majority of the available files on the servers was without permission of the copyright holders.

The server went offline after the hosting provider reporting of the Foundation BREIN submitted to its customer, but a reply. In those early reports BREIN to make inaccessible because of the servers that are structurally access to illegal content.

Many illegal eDonkey servers are anonymous to the Netherlands came after foreign hosting providers have notice them on hold. BREIN works out to these servers from Netherlands chain. In the Netherlands are hosting providers Euroaccess and Ecatel the last remaining service providers engaged in illegal eDonkey servers on their network products. BREIN will not hesitate to take legal action to close these servers.

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When a developer opens the source code to their software – especially for P2P software – a number of interesting things can happen. One of the interesting things is the possibility of fork projects or even modifications. One of the major features in the eMule community is the numerous spinoff projects that are being released, continually developed, and are well-used by tens of thousands of users.

Of course, the question newcomers generally raise is which one to use. The general rule of thumb is that if a user is new to the client and protocols of eMule, a user should stick with the original version. Once a user has gained a sufficient amount of experience using the software, that’s when they may want to test drive modifications, or mods. eMule mods won’t make downloading faster, but they do offer numerous advanced features that eMule generally doesn’t offer – at least offer in the short term as some features do, in fact, wind their way back to the original version.

One mod, which also was recently updated, is eMule MorphXT. Leuk_He, the main developer of the mod recently announced the release of the latest version of Morph XT.

“It contains some stability improvement from out newest team member[fafner],” leuk_he said, “and a whole bunch of other tweaks you can read in the changelog.”

The changelog:

18-05-2008
Compiled with visual studio 2003 sp1.
should also work with vs 2005 sp1

Merged to 0.49a [Stulle]
CHANGE:update libping to 1.28 (which is same source as 1.27) [leuk_he]
CHANGE:update CxImage to 6.00 (we use the rather complete lib) [Stulle]
CHANGE:update cryptolib Version 5.5.2 (9/24/2007)
FIX: clients downloading during large file completion stuck with ’stalled, reading from disk’ [fafner]
ADD: spreadbars to history [fafner]
ADD: percentage client already got in QueueList and UploadList [fafner]
ADD: chunk number to chunk details in UploadList [fafner]
ADD: Show much verbose info on content-> mediafinfo.dll (if you disable advanced options mediainfo_RIFF for avi files…)
ADD: (BETA!) download ack overhead used in in upload calculation
ADD: show if server obfuscation key is available
FIX: use part.met.bak files instead of hardly ever seen valid part.met.backup files. [leuk_he]
ADD: experimental support for visual studio 2005 sp1. See readme. [fafner/rapid mule/leuk_he]
ADD: alpha support for vs2008, make very sure to read the readme.
CHANGE: reduce some cpu under wine [leuk_he]
CHANGE: Using a different method to create captcha due to new version of CxImage lib [Stulle]
CHANGE: FriendSlots now saved in 0×03 (0×2 occupied by official) [Stulle]
REMOVED: SafeKAD (the Officials did a big step in that direction) [Stulle]
REMOVED: KAD optimizations (what ever ) [Stulle]

Official homepage
Sourceforge Page

Users who want to install eMule for the first time should use the Installer. Users who are updating from a previous version should download the Binaries (file labeled “bin”), unzip the package in the eMule directory and replace all of the files.

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Last month, Zeropaid reported on the new version of eMule in Beta Testing. Just days after our report, we reported on the responses from the community. It seems as though the new version was very well received and resulted in an extended beta-testing phase.

Now, Some Support has made an anticipated announcement on the development of eMule – a final version was released.

“we are happy to present you yet another updated version of our beloved eMule.” Some Support said, “If we would name our versions instead of giving them plain version numbers, the name of the 0.49 series would be something like “Kad Love”. Well probably not, because it doesn’t sounds very imaginative, but I hope you get the idea: eMule 0.49 concentrates on improving Kad making it more stable, reliable and future proof.”

He also noted the major improvements in the new eMule:

• Major Kad protocol improvements, like kad obfuscation, better NAT handling, direct callbacks, flood protections, etc.
• Several changes to the message system to get rid of spammers (by Captchas) and stay in touch with friends with dynamic IPs
• Several GUI improvements like storing searches between eMule sessions, a searchfilter for shared files and easier access to the comment filter
• And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

A changelog was also posted and can be found with the main announcement. The latest improvements certainly make eMule an even more promising BitTorrent alternative since, not only are older and rare files present on the network, but now the client is more encrypted than before.

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There was a lot of excitement in the eMule community with word that a new version of the main eMule client getting an update. So we went over to the eMule forums to get a better picture on what the excitement was all about.

Some Support explained to ZeroPaid that most of what there is to know about this development has already been posted in the Beta forum. He added, “It’s a normal beta phase which we do for before every new release.”

We went to a number of eMule modders to get their responses. Stulle, developer of a number of mods including StulleMule told ZeroPaid, “I think the new version is a great step to improve KAD in matters of security against attacks. Many mods in the past started to [adopt] Netfinitys Safe Kad but it was neither all nor the majority which is using the official client. As such [the whole networks stability will improve].”

Here’s what else he told us:

Another great thing is the Captcha for messages. In the past the modders either had to maintain a list of bad messages like in the Xtreme mod or we had to rely on heuristics. The new captchas will ensure that we do not receive random messages generated by malicious clients. So this is a real improvement.

So, these two are the most obvious changes and as a result will the MorphXT loose all old “Safe KAD” features for the time being and we will see if Netfinity makes an effort to make a new version or maybe he is satisfied. Same applies to my ScarAngel project and Mephisto project, of course.

The StulleMule mod will most likely loose the hard coded list of leecher messages as they become pretty futile. As for Xtreme and subsequent I am uncertain if it will be changed or not. It’s all a little complicated there right now with Xman missing for quite some time. We gotta see if he returns or not. I hope he does although I will not let the Xtreme mod die if he does not.

There is little I can say about the testing. The short pre-beta phase proved to be beneficial and the beta phase proves to be beneficial, again. I think the official eMule team is doing a good job with all the testing and this really helps fixing bugs before they make it into a real release. Having a good base makes it easier for us because we do not have to keep up with official bug- and hotfixes. Although I have not started merging MorphXT or any of my mods, yet, the beta phase is also a great opportunity to merge the code. This in terms helps to release our mods closer to the actual release date, if we dare that is.

Leuk_he, a developer of the MorphXT mod of eMule told ZeroPaid, “For morph we will remove the (netf) safekad implementation because merging it will be hell , and rely on the official improvement in kad.”

When we asked David Xanatos, developer of NeoMule, how he felt the beta testing was going, he responded, “The Beta-testing process of 0.49a is much better than the previous ones, as you may notices from a thread in the development section the new version was available to some Moders long time before the public beta in order to help testing and fix the most important bugs.”

“The more peer review in a development process the better.” He added.

We asked him how this development will affect the mod he develops and maintains and he responded, “Not at all I think, it does not change anything on the need to update the Neo sooner or later, if I had enough free time, I presume the early availability of the beta code would speed up the release of a new Neo version, but momentarily my free time is very limited and so I’ll update to the final when it is final and most likely with some weeks delay.”

zz, developer of the ZZUL mod seems to have been unable to respond to our inquiries.

Overall, it seems that the latest beta test has been, overall, well received. Many users are currently working out the bugs in the system. Of course, it’s a beta version, so there probably is going to be bugs in it. The more users that work on the beta test, the better so as to get a more stable version developed among other things. The near future of eMule development appears to be very promising.

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Many of you out there are still fans of eMule and the ED2K network. So it’s with you in mind that I created the guide below to help you set up the program and even about where to find content to download.

Table Of Contents

• 1. Download1ing and Installing eMule
• 2. Introduction to eMule, eD2K and Kademlia Networks
• 2.1. The eD2K Network
• 2.2. The Kademlia Network
• 2.3. eD2K Vs. Kademlia
• 3. Customizing eMule
• 3.1. Connection Wizard
• 3.2. The Main eMule Screen And Getting ServerList
• 3.3. Your Preferences
• 3.3.1. General Preferences
• 3.3.2. Display Preferences
• 3.3.3. Connection Preferences
• 3.3.4. Proxy Preferences
• 3.3.5. Server Preferences
• 3.3.6. Directories Preferences
• 3.3.7. Files Preferences
• 3.3.8. Notifications Preferences
• 3.3.9. Statistics Preferences
• 3.3.10. IRC Preferences
• 3.3.11. Security Preferences
• 4. Important things to know
• 4.1. Client ID
• 4.2. eD2K Links
• 4.3. Queue Ranking
• 4.4. Progress Bars
• 4.5. Things to check out
• 5. eD2K Link Sites

1. Downloading And Installing eMule

You can download eMule by Clicking here. The Installation of eMule is actually pretty straight forward. The first thing you will be asked for is your installation language, most of you I would imagine will be selecting English. After you have done this click OK and you will see the Pic to the right of this text. Quickly read it and click OK. Now you will be shown the eMule License Agreement, I recommend you read through it and accept it. Next will have to choose which components you have to install, by default, they are all selected and you shouldn’t change this. Click Next and you will be asked to specify a destination folder, the default folder is fine but if you want to change it to anything else it won’t affect eMule’s performance at all. Now click Install and it should very quickly copy files to the destination directory. You can now click Close. eMule should now appear in your Programs list on the Start Menu. Before we actually get into running and customizing eMule, It is very important that you get an idea of how the Networks function and some background information on eMule. It won’t take long to read over the next section so I advise you don’t skip it. Knowledge of how a network works, can help later on when you are trying to achieve higher download speeds or releasing files on the Network.

2. Introduction to eMule, eD2K and Kademlia Networks

The Original Client that used the Donkey (or eD2K) Network was eDonkey2000. However, many found that eDonkey2000 was generally buggy and that the interface could be improved upon. So the eMule Project came to be, led by a developer called Merkur. Right now, eMule is probably the fastest growing P2P client there is and it owe’s this to it’s open source policy and the many developers that have contributed to it. eMule is developed without any adware or spyware and is completely free. It is developed as a hobby and aims to make no profit. However, donations to its cause are welcome. For more information on eMule and its team of developers visit http://emule-project.net.

2.1. The eD2K Network

As I stated earlier, the eD2K Network began with eDonkey2000. Now there are many clients that use this Network. The Network is run by many different servers, not just one like a lot of other P2P networks. To connect to a server you must first get a server list for your client, we will see this later. When you connect to a server, the server tests to see if other clients can connect to you. If they can connect to you, you will receive a High ID, if they cannot, you will receive a LowID. We will read more about ID later. Once you have connected, your list of shared files will be sent to the server, the server will then add this list of files to the database. The servers do a lot of work including performing searches and gathering sources. Without these servers the Network would be useless and even one of these big servers falling could be fatal to the Network. Files are transferred in chunks, or Parts. Anybody who has downloaded a full part of a file is known as a source. A part of a file is 9.28MB. This Part system means that big files can be spread easily around the Network. We will read later how you can use this to your advantage to achieve higher download speeds.

2.2. The Kademlia Network

Whereas the eD2K Network requires you to connect to servers, Kademlia is a serverless network. Well, it’s serverless to the degree that you wont have to download a massive server list and keep it up to date to use it. Kademlia, sort of, makes a server out of every user. When you connect to the Kademlia Network, you are given an ID if you have a HighID. To connect to the network you require the IP of an eMule client already connected to it. A test like the HighID test in the eD2K Network is then performed, if other clients can connect to you, you will be given an Open status. If they cannot connect to you, you will be given a Firewalled status. If you have a Firewalled status, you will be required to connect to a server because Kademlia doesn’t support Firewalled clients yet, as it is still in it’s testing phase. As a client on the Kademlia Network, you are assigned a responsibility. Each client has a unique Hash ID and your responsibility might be to handle searches for a specific keyword. Then when another client searches the Network, the clients responsible for the keywords are found and the search results can be brought back. This is a pretty clever idea and it makes use of every client connected to the network.

2.3. eD2K Vs. Kademlia

So which network is better than the other?? That is the question you probably would ask first. The answer is.. neither is better. In fact, the only difference between the Networks is how you connect and how source finding and searches are performed. The files on each network are not completely different at all. One however might have more users than the other making the amount of files higher. However, there are some differences between them that have to be noted. Firstly, eD2K depends on Servers to work. If the biggest server collapses the Network potentially could be crippled until more servers come to facilitate. Kademlia however, doesn’t depend on major servers but to work properly would depend on a high client count. eMule now is the only client that supports Kademlia also, whereas many many clients support eD2K which means eD2K will probably for a very long time have far more users than Kademlia. Basically, each has it’s good and bad points, neither Network is perfect and lets not forget, Kademlia is still just in it’s early stages. I, for one, am looking forward to it’s future.

3. Customizing eMule

On your first run of eMule, you will get a Welcome to eMule Window. Here you will have to make some choices and fill in some details. Click Next and you will be asked to specify a nickname, [ link ] will be the default nick. It doesn’t matter if you don’t choose a nick, you can leave it at it’s default or use your own, it’s entirely up to you. Click next and you will be asked if you want to enable the automatic handling of Download Priorities. I personally think you should leave it switched on. Basically it will manage the priority of your downloads so that a download with 2000 sources wont affect one with 100 sources. The download with 2000 would be given normal priority and that with 100 could be given high priority. This will make sure that you get your files as fast as you can. Click Next and you will be asked about Upload Priorities. Basically this means if you are sharing a 2000 source file and a 100 source file, the 100 source file will get more upload priority because it’s a rare file. In my opinion, this option keeps the Network alive and I strongly recommend that you leave it switched on. Click Next, Now you will be asked about Full chunk transfer. If this is switched off, then your upload queue will empty quicker but it means you might not upload full chunks of files to a client. If you are a releaser of files you will definitely want this option switched on. I personally leave it on because spreading full chunks of files helps the Network to function better. Click Next again, now you will be asked a few different questions. First of all, this guide is for the eD2K Network, so select that as your Network. You can also select Kad if you wish to test it out. Safe Connect is next, basically if you tick this option beneath it, then connecting to servers might be a lot quicker but the chance of a LowID is higher. A LowID is not a good thing as you will read later so I recommend you leave this option off. You can also choose whether or not you want eMule to auto connect at startup, this is completely up to you aswell, if it matters, I don’t have this option selected because I like to choose different servers. Click Next now and click Finish.

3.1. Connection Wizard

After you have completed the “Welcome To eMule” wizard you will see the Connection Wizard pop up.It will look exactly like the pic to the right of this text. Later on we will be looking more into the Connection Settings but it’s best to sue the wizard to determine many of the settings. First of All, You have to select the Operating System you are using. Win XP and Win2K are known to handle multiple connections better than 98 or ME. For this reason, they are Higher recommended when running eMule. Selecting the wrong Operating System will cause eMule to run sluggish so make sure you have the right option selected. Concurrent Downloads DOES NOT mean maximum downloads. Remember that when selecting this. This option is there to determine the maximum amount of Sources you can have for a file. If you plan on only downloading 1-5 downloads at once then the maximum number of sources will be much higher than 6-15. Depending on your connection this source limit will be determined by eMule. As you can see I have selected 6-15 because I believe that eMule works its best when you have more than a few downloads. A single download might be slow but if you have others going at the same time too it doesn’t really matter to you because another might download faster. However, if you have a pretty slow connection I wouldn’t recommend that you download a lot at once, as the constant source asking and connecting might just kill your connection altogether. Now Last but definitely not least, you have to select your Connection Type. Please remember this is VERY important as it helps to determine your maximum download and upload speed as well as also being a factor in the max sources per file. Scroll through the list and if you see your connection in the list (as I have found mine, 1024/256) then select it and click Apply. If its not in the list, select Custom and put in the value’s yourself. If you do not know what to put in here, you should know. But it is easy to find out, just refer to any documentation you got with your connection or any advertisements for it,. You might see it say something like “Download Speeds Up to 512kb/s and Upload speeds of up to 128kb/s”. If this is the case it’s in the list, if the value’s you find are not in the list, then use the Custom Option. Finding out your Connection values is a vital factor and will determine how eMule performs for both uploading and downloading.

3.2. The Main eMule Screen And Getting ServerList

My Apologies for the horrible quality of the picture that accompanies this text, I had to resize it to fit the layout, I may add a full size screenshot to the forum but I’m sure you’ll understand what I’m saying anyway. So looking at the main eMule screen now, let me explain to you what you are looking at. There are 6 parts to it, The button bar at the top, the server list in the middle, Serverinfo and Logs tabs under the serverlist, server handling on the left and My Info. eMule has expanded since it first was released and now there is much more to cover in this tutorial than there was before. The very first thing we are going to do with eMule is get it a serverlist. If you look at the program to the left you will see a box that says Update Server.met From URL. This is what we are going to do here. Paste [ link ] into the box and click Update. There should now be many more Servers listed. To find the servers with the most users, look at the server list then look at the tiny buttons over it that say things like Server Name, IP, Description etc. Scroll across to where it says users and click it, It should now organize them by their user count. On my Pic, razorback2 is 565K users, that’s a lot of users for just one server. When you connect to a server you also may receive new servers to your list. This is very handy because if you connect to a lot of servers it sort of eliminates the need to keep updating serverlists, but I would still recommend you keep it a common practice. Now before you connect to a server, we have a long road of preferences to go through so let’s begin, click Preferences.

3.3. Your Preferences

This section will help you to customize your eMule client by changing certain preferences to suit you.

3.3.1. General Preferences

The first thing you will see is your General Preferences. Here you can change your Nick or Language from what you set in the Welcome Wizard. Under Miscellaneous you have a few more options. Beep On Errors will do exactly as it says, Bring To Front On Link Click means that if you click an eD2K link from a website, eMule will add it to the Download List and eMule will display itself in front of any other programs you have running. If you are not familiar with eD2K links, don’t worry about it, I’ll be going over them later in the guide. Enable Online Signature is another option that comes with eMule, there are programs out to edit and create online sig’s but I won’t be going over them in this guide. Prompt On Exit can be useful, basically it means that if you go to close eMule it will ask you if you are sure. For those of us who keep a lot of programs open and swap between the, all the time, this is useful because if we accidentally hit Close instead of Minimize we will not lose our sources or current download speed. If eMule closes, your Queue’s are gone and you will have to gather the sources all over again when you re-run it. Now under Startup are more options that you can configure. First of all Check for new version should always be checked, but the amount of days between checks is up to you, I like the Splashscreen but maybe for people with slower PC’s you might want to disable this. Start Minimized would be useful maybe if you were remotely starting eMule (i believe some irc programs like klipper can remotely start emule if you send an email to it). Now we’ll skip over Edit Webservices but we cannot ignore the eD2K Links button. If you have another client installed that uses the eD2K network, it may have set itself up to accept eD2K Links, which means, if you click a link to a file on the donkey network, that client will open and add it to its download list, not eMule. If the button is grayed out then it’s ok, eMule will accept eD2K links for you, but if it’s not, click it and set it to accept eD2K Links. Now click the Display button on the left.

3.3.2. Display Preferences

This is not vitally important but cool if you like to change the way eMule looks. Progressbar Style in my opinion is fine the way it is. The Progress Bars, are the bars in the transfers window for Downloads and Uploads. You will learn later about what the different colour’s mean on these bars. Leave Tooltip delay time the way it already is. Download list doubleclick to expand should be left the way it is. Basically when you are downloading something, if you doubleclicki it, you will see a list of sources you are downloading from. Indicate downloads with comments/ratings by icon also should be left on. When you are downloading something, if someone has made a comment, a little icon will appear beside the download, you can right click and choose to view comments. You will also notice the icon’s change for good and bad comments. Show percentage of download completion in progressbar is another option many people might go for because its like a standard on other P2P networks. I however couldn’t be bothered with it. Show transfer rates on title will just put the upload and download speed on the title bar of eMule, its up to you if you want that option. Show download info on category tabs is again up to you. Category tabs can be useful if you download a lot. If you go to the transfers window and look at the download, you will see a little tab that says All. If you right click this you can add in your own categories likes Video, Archives etc. Minimize To System Tray is again useful for those of us who run a lot of programs at once. it will put eMule into the system tray when minimized as a tiny icon that you can double click to maximize.Auto clear complete downloads might be handy for someone who downloads a lot but as many have said before there is something nice about seeing a download complete because the progress bar goes completely green, you can then right click and run the file. Now there is a little box that is below, I will let you decide if you want to disable known clients list (known clients are basically people you have uploaded to or downloaded from, this wont stop you or them from getting credit, it will just remove the list from eMule to save RAM), Disable Queue List (This wont stop upload queue’s it will just disable the list to save resources), Don’t update Queue list in real time (this one should be ticked because if you are sharing a lot of files the queue will get big, if it updates in real time it will take more resources constantly to keep updating like that) and Don’t recreate statistic graphs on resize (you can see the graphs under statistics window, just look and you will understand them). You can also now edit the font display for servers, messages and irc windows. Auto completion (history function) should remain enabled. You also have a handy reset button there if you make a mistake and something looks wrong. Now please click Connection.

3.3.3. Connection Preferences

The wizard you filled in earlier will already have determined a lot of the settings here but still we can mess with a few. If you can remember, I set my connection to 1024/256. Therefore, downloading would be possible at about 128kb/s down and 32kb/s up. Now you can change your Download Capacities anytime you want but if the wizard set it based on your entries, you should leave it. As for Download Limits you can just untick the little checkbox to make it unlimited. However, with Upload Limits you should never go higher than about 75% of your upload capacity. If you do and you try to use the internet you will notice a change. However, if you get cheeky and try to set your Upload Limit low, eMule will punish you. Now it wont exactly do anything bad but you will get very low credit and hence you will get very low download speeds. So remember, sharing helps you download faster so you should share as much as you possibly can. Your Clientport is the port used by eMule. Some ISP’s have become aware of port 4662 and blocked it. You will know this if you keep getting LowID’s or if a server warns you that it has been blocked. You can change your Clientport to any port that you like though. Next you see your Hard Limit and this is the maximum sources per file. This figure has been gotten from the wizard earlier if you can remember. Now you can change your Hard limit to anything higher if you think your connection can handle it. I think mine is really set at about 1500 because a lot of the files I download might not have more than 500 sources anyway. Connection Limit is important. You cant set it too low because if you do, eMule might struggle, if you set it too high, eMule might cause your internet connection to become fully used up. So leave it at the value that the wizard set it to. Some more options here include Autoconnect on startup (basically it will connect to a server as soon as eMule starts), Reconnect on Loss (this will find an alternative server if you lose connection to one you are currently on) and Show overhead bandwidth (this is not really important, overhead is kind of like the bandwidth you use requesting files from sources and getting search results). You can also select what Network you are using or both. If you want to run the wizard again, as you will see there is another link there for it. Please click the Proxy button.

3.3.4. Proxy Preferences

eMule supports the use of many different types of Proxy Servers on the eD2K Network. It supports Socks 4, Socks 4a, Socks 5 and HTTP 1.1. For any reader who doesn’t know much about proxy server’s I’ll explain. A proxy server kind of acts like a middle man between your computer and another. For example, if you were uploading to a user and you were using a Socks 5 proxy, the data would go from you, to the proxy and then to the remote user. So why would you want this? Basically many people would like to have themselves anonymous on P2P networks. Proxy servers can provide anonymity because the IP Address the remote user will be receiving a file from wont be yours, it will be the proxy’s IP. So it would probably limit bandwidth a bit but it can provide excellent security on the Network. While eMule supports proxy’s, with a HTTP 1.1 proxy there is no way that you can receive a High ID. HTTP 1.1 proxy’s are there so you can surf websites anonymously, not share files. Therefore, it would only work through specific ports and bandwidth would probably be very very limited. Still, if you want to try a http 1.1 proxy, go ahead, you can find many anonymous proxies at http://www.proxy4free.com. I don’t use Proxy server’s on eMule however so I cant provide any test results or anything since I haven’t ran any. I would like to hear on the forums from users who try it with a Socks5 or Socks4 proxy is that is possible. Now we will move onto Server, so click Server.

3.3.5. Server Preferences

Here are a nice list of things you can change related to servers. First of all Remove Dead Servers is a good option because it will keep your serverlist clean. Auto-update serverlist at startup is also pretty handy, you can click list and add in where to retrieve a serverlist from. Update serverlist when connecting to a server is a must have, when you connect to a server it sends a list, then the list is checked against yours and any you don’t have it adds to it. Update serverlist when a client connects is pretty much the same thing, just with other clients. Use priority system is good too, because you can change the priority of servers and if you are auto connecting at startup, or if you lose connection to a server, servers with high priorities will be selected first. You can change the priority of a server by right clicking it in the server list. Use smart LowID check on connect should be left checked, when you get a LowID its nice to know you need to do something about it at least. Many users probably don’t ever realize. We’ve already seen Safe Connect in the wizard earlier. Autoconnect to servers in static list only is basically there because some people prefer to connect to a static server. Static server is like a static IP it never changes. Set manually added servers to high priority will set servers you completely add yourself (that includes the IP address and port number, not when you add a serverlist) to higher priority that the rest of the list. So basically you see that you have a few options there related to servers. Once again its entirely up to you if you want to change any of these options, none of them will really destroy the performance of eMule so don’t worry. Now lets move on to Directories, click Directories.

3.3.6. Directories Preferences

Ok the life of eMule is the sharers and EVERYBODY who uses eMule should share. There is no excuse. Some people try to use the excuse that they are afraid to share on P2P networks because of organizations or corporations that might be monitoring them. Unfortunately, if you feel this way, you shouldn’t be using P2P at all. It’s not fair to attempt to eat off others and give nothing back. Now that I have that said, let’s look at the preferences. First of all, the default Incoming Files and Temporary Files folders will be listed. These folders are perfectly fine but if you wish to change them to any other folders there is no problem with that. Now to select shared directories, click the little + sign beside the drive and then beside the folders etc. Now if you select a folder, it will share all the files in that folder but if there are any folders inside it (or its subdirectories as they are known) they will NOT be selected. If you want those folders selected too, then when you are clicking the folder, hold down CTRL and it will select all the subdirectories inside it, and of course all the folders in those folders for however long the trail goes on. Now the last part is UNC paths. This is for remote paths for drives that are no on your machine but might be across a network. Just remember to add in the computer name, for example computer02cdownloads. So that’s how easy it is to setup a shared directory in eMule, let’s move on to Files now.

3.3.7. Files Preferences

Here are some options for file handling you might want to change. First of all, See my shared files/directories will allow anybody (or just those on your friends list) see your shared directories. They would do this by right clicking on you when you ar eon their friends list, or in their download queue as a source, then clicking view files. Most people prefer to keep this set to Nobody, but it’s up to you. Intelligent Corruption Handling should be left selected because file transfers have many different ways of becoming corrupt. If a part is corrupt, eMule would either re-download the part or recover the corruption. Now look at the Initializations box. Add files to download in paused mode might be handy for someone who plans on downloading a lot of files. You might have to pause some instead of choking your connection. Add new shared files with auto priority will be selected depending on what you put in the wizard earlier. It basically means that when new shared files come along, it will give them priority based on their popularity on the network. Add new downloads with auto priority is pretty much the same as what happens with shared files only it’ll be with files added to your download list. To make sure you get rare files and popular files properly you should leave this ticked. Cleanup Filenames is a nice little option. Basically some sites that offer links of files on the network will use the eD2K link to add the name of the site onto the filename. Here you can add words separated by quotes, then if they appear on filenames they will be filtered off. Now back to the other options, Try to transfer full chunks to all uploads will again be selected depending on what you set in the wizard earlier. I recommend it because uploading full chunks will make the networks users downloading files that pause for a long time with just a little bit to go more rare. Try to download first and last chunks first has some good things about it, like to preview a video file, you would need the first chunk. Whether you select it or not is up to you. Watch clipboard for eD2K links is an option that does exactly what it says, but I never really bothered with it, but of course, you can try it out if you want. Start next paused file if a file completes is probably needed by those people who download a lot of files and often have a few paused. When a file completes it will resume the next in line. Now look at the Video Player box. There have been external programs written that help to preview video files but I wont be covering those programs in this guide. You can add a video player in if you want however. Also Create backup to previewshould be selected. When you go to preview it will take a while to open the file but its the best way to do it. Anyway, now we are on to Notifications.

3.3.8. Notifications Preferences

Notifications in eMule were added kind of just to make some users happy I would think. All they essentially do is alert you on an event really. Pop up messages can come up in eMule and you might have no idea, so maybe making a sound play when it does is a good option, its up to you. The Pop out when box has a few extra features some users might find handy. Basically I’m not even going to go through them because if you look at them and read them, it really could not be more straight forward than it already is. Click Statistics now please.

3.3.9. Statistics Preferences

eMule has a statistics windows that some people might like to look at to see how much they have downloaded or uploaded altogether, these are some preferences for its display. Take a look at the statistics windows before you look at the preferences. This is also pretty straight forward. You can adjust the time delays for graphs to update, select background colour’s etc but I’m not going to explain this either because it’s far too straight forward. Move on to IRC.

3.3.10. IRC Preferences

eMule has a built in IRC client. Here you can select a nickname, it can be anything, it doesn’t have to be what you picked to be your eMule Nickname. The Channel List filter will only display channels with a name that you choose or a certain amount of users. If you entered 100 as the value, only channels with 100+ users would be displayed when you connect to IRC. The Perform string is basically a line of text you can pout in that will be sent to the server on connection, it could be /join #emule to make sure you join the eMule support channel when you connect. Now there are a lot of options in Miscellaneous box so I’ll run quickly through them. Play sound events is not really needed, i have never had it selected when I used to use eMule IRC. Connect to help channel will automatically connect you to #emule when you connect. This is a nice little trick by the eMule team which has made them usually with 1000+ users on the channel. Load server channel list on connect will display all the channels on the server when you get connected, if you have decided to filter anything you probably wont get the full list. Add timestamp to messages is something that should always be selected in my opinion. It will simply add the time the message was said in front of the message. You have the option to Ignore Info Messages too. Ignore Misc info messages should be left alone as it really isn’t annoying or does any harm, Ignore Join info messages will make sure that when someone joins a channel that it wont announce it on your screen, this can be annoying on a channel with a lot of users. Ignore Part info messages will make sure that when a user parts from a channel it wont be announced and Ignore Quit info messages will stop the announcement of a user quitting the network. You can also Ignore eMule Protocol Messages. This is basically the same as Ignoring Info messages above it so I’ll let you decide between the two options. Accept eD2K links in IRC means that you will be able to click eD2K links in IRC so that the file it references will begin downloading in eMule and From Friends Only will only accept eD2K links from users who are in your friends list. Now on to Security settings.

3.3.11. Security Preferences

These are your security preferences. First of all your IP Filter can be very useful. While i wont be covering most of it I’ll give you some information on it in case you would like to use this option. Basically if you build an ip filter list with a lot of IP ranges in it, if those ranges show up in either your upload or download queue, they will be blocked out. These can include anything from law enforcement to hackers. If you wish to get an ip filter list, go to google and search IPFilter.dat im sure you’ll find a result. In the Messages box you can choose to Filter messages containing certain words or phrases. You can also Accept from friends only which will mean if any msg’s you and they are not on your friends list, you wont even receive it. Accept from valid clients only will make sure you don’t get messages from fake clients that might be trying to spam you or something and the Advanced Spamfilter should always be switched on. In the Comments box you can choose to filter any comments that contain words of your choice. In the Miscellaneous box you should leave Leave Secure Identification ticked and leave Run eMule as unprivileged User unticked. This is the last preferences we will go over since the scheduler is straight forward, web interface will not be covered in this guide and extended settings are also straight forward enough for you to work it out. Now I will cover some things you should know.

4. Important things to know

I can understand this guide can be boring but it’s nearly finished and some of the things coming are a lot more interesting so no worries. Here are some things that are nice to know of in eMule.

4.1. Client ID

Remember I told you that you get an ID everytime you connect to a server? Well it can be low unfortunately and that is bad for you. So what is a LOWID? Its when your client port is unreachable basically. Its usually a firewall or a router that is causing the trouble and often even your isp. A LowID is an ID lower than 16777216. So how can you try to defeat it? First try changing client port to 80 instead of 4662 (make sure to restart emule afterwards). To give full access to port 4662 and eMule on your firewall. Or to configure your router for port forwarding for your client port. Unfortunately sometimes a Client ID is very hard to fix.

4.2. eD2K Links

eD2K Links are links that can be added to webpages that when clicked will start a file downloading in eMule. The page that has the eD2K link does not offer the file at all just references to a file already on the eD2K Network so it’s legal and should stay that way. At the end of the tutorial are some links to Websites that post eD2K links. To get an eD2K link of a file that you are sharing, go to shared files in eMule and right click on one, you can then click, Copy link to Clipboard. This helps if you are trying to release a file on the Network.

4.3. Queue Ranking

What you see to the right is queue ranking.You can see this if you go to a download in your list and double click it. Basically when you queue on a source you need a position in their queue. As you can see, I am pretty close to the first few before they transfer to me and the one on top is currently transferring data to me. You can improve your QR by uploading (remember the credit system?). It’s also the same for other people too, they get a position open your queue. If you look under transfers and click the Uploads button, it changes to On Queue and then Known Clients.

4.4. Progress Bars

Please excuse the measurements of the pic appearing on top of the progress bars, nothing I could do about it. Anyway, the colour’s are, Red – A part you don’t have + is not found on any source, Blue – Available part, the darker the blue, the more available it is, Black – A part you have downloaded and Yellow – A part you are currently downloading. A bar gone fully Green means complete. The numbers can be explained easy. The first number is the amount of sources you are queued on, the second is the total number found and the number in brackets, the number of sources transferring to you right now. So as you can see its not complicated or anything.

4.5. Things to check out

There is more to eMule than I have added to this guide and over time you will notice the little extra things about it. What you should do is right click on downloads and uploads and see the options you have with them, also with shared files. There are also new things under the Tools button. There is a lot for you to check out yourself, this guide has just shown you how to use it. I didn’t ass in searching for files because honestly, it couldn’t be any easier, If you choose to search local, then you will search just one server or you can select global server which will bring back results from all servers. You have to be connected to search. There are also other programs that work for eMule like Donkey Doctor that you might like to check out, they can help sort out a lot of problems you can encounter with downloads.

5. eD2K Link Sites

This is a list of sites that post eD2K links. They do not offer any pirated downloads, they only offer links to files on the eD2K network and therefore are not really doing anything wrong.

• http://tvunderground.org.ru/
• http://peerates.net/peerates/index.html

“To gain more testing of this release,” SomeSupport of eMule said, “we hand out a Beta version of the coming 0.49a.”

The new version that is on the horizon has a number of promising features. the features emphasized are:

• Major Kad protocol improvements, like kad obfuscation, better NAT handling, direct callbacks, flood protections, etc.
• Several changes to the message system to get rid of spammers (by Captchas) and stay in touch with friends with dynamic IPs
• Several GUI improvements like storing searches between eMule sessions, a searchfilter for shared files and easier access to the comment filter
• And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

Here are some of the highlights in the changelog:

• Added obfuscation to the Kad UDP protocol. Kad obfuscation is part of the protocol and is unrelated to the Ed2K-Obfuscation settings
• In order to reduce spam messages and by this make the messagesystem more useable again, eMule now supports Captcha authentification:
  If enabled, someone who messages you has first to solve a cpatcha (an image which shows letters) before the message is shown to you. Older clients who do not support captchas will be unable to message you and receive a notice about this.
• You can now bootstrap to kad from an URL which points to a nodes.dat file (in the Kad tab)
• The messagesystem is now able to find your friends even if their IP changed if you and they are in Kad and not firewalled. This will help to stay in contact with friends longer than one session (Only works for new added/new seen friends which have Kad enabled).
• Reworked Kads Firewall handling and testing:
  The kad firewall state is now split into TCP and UDP. The TCP state is basically the old state, which tests if your TCP port is reachable. The UDP state is new and checks if your UDP port is reachable. For example on Full Cone NAT Routers, without portforwarding you will get TCP firewalled (as before) but UDP open (new). If you have the UDP open state, eMule doesn’t needs a buddy any longer and will fully participate in the KAD network and therefore take away the overhead they caused in earlier versions (you still cannot connect to other TCP firewalled clients if you are TCP firewalled yourself).

  The new UDP state is shown in the MyInfo field in the Server Tab. As long as the UDP firewalltest is unfinished “(unverified)” is appended

  Clients which have the Kad UDP open state, now support direct callbacks (invoked by an UDP packet) to connect to not firewalled clients. These callbacks are faster, more reliable and use less resources than buddy or server callbacks.

  The new firewall test also fixes a bug / design flaw which caused eMule to always use the clients source UDP port, instead testing if the internal set UDP port might be the proper choice instead. This was especially a problem on Restricted Cone Routers with PAT (Port Address Translation)

• If you select a non-default incoming directory which already contains files, eMule notices you that those files are automatically shared by eMule
• Added a general anti-flood-protection to kad. If Kad receives more request of a specific type from one IP than it would expect, it starts ignoring those requests and eventually banning the source. This is supposed to avoid or slow down several attack scenarios.
• Several changes have been made to improve kads resistance against malicious keyword publishing:

  Kad now keeps track which filenames were published by different sources for the same file and uses the most common name (instead the last published one) when responding search requests

  Same hashs (files) which have different filesizes are now properly stored seperatly instead overwriting each other

  Kad calculates a rating based on how many different sources publish a file and how many files publishes a source. When responding to a search request, files with a rating below a set limit will be sent last in order to avoid that spammed files push out valid ones.

  The Kad rating for published files is also sent in search results to be used in the future version as indicator

• ed2k-links is no longer case sensitive
• eMule is now aware of windows standby modes and reconnects after waking up

If you know eMule and would like to help out in the beta-testing process, it’s recommended that you read through this thread before testing yourself. The Beta version of the new eMule is available through the ED2K network as well as a number of links provided by the community.

Public Beta-testing forum

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The main new features that this version has to offer are:
* Protocol Obfuscation support
* Previewing the contents of archives in the file detail dialog
* Some GUI improvements like a on-the-fly search result filter
* And as always fixing several bugs and adding other small changes

For a complete list of all the new changes, check out eMule’s complete changelog.

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Need help getting started with eMule? Check out the Zeropaid eMule forum’s section.

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