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"Site shut down"?

Looks like it's still up, and the Chinese government only issued warnings and did not initalize shut down. http://torrentfreak.com/chinese-state-bans-video-sites-huge-edonkey-site-survives-081031/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fr0 (talk • contribs) 17:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

VeryCD rips off rippers

It may sound a bit illogical or double standard, but I get the impression that VeryCD users are ripping off other people's ed2k releases. I know it's a controversy topic, but I think it should be known that plainly speaking VeryCD steals from the thiefs:

I totally agrees and believe you have the right to sue them for violating copyright laws for ripping your ripped contents... Enjoy! 24.89.245.62

When someone rips a CD, encodes it to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis or whatever and packs it into an archive... it may happen that a similar release pops up a few days later with nearly the same size plus some chinese letters added to an altered file name: "<artist>.-.[<album>].專輯.(mp3).<ext>"

專輯 obviously means "album" or long player (LP record).

I'm not exactly sure whether these duplicate repacks are from the VeryCD community alone, but nevertheless some research and a quick look at the music section of the VeryCDs website reveals that ALL ed2k links look like above.

Now what's the big deal?

It's totally stupid to have duplicate versions of the exact same encoded files in repacked archives on a P2P network.
It's totally disrespectful to the "original" releaser, whose archive got downloaded, unpacked, retagged I suppose and repacked and re-released. More so when the new release does not owe him credit (his releaser name being stripped off the file name of the "new" ed2k file) and especially when the new release is downloaded by a much larger user base from China making it more popular on the P2P network than the original copy.

I wonder if anyone else has noticed this and what they think about it. And in some way I think it's kinda tragically amusing... the Chinese are copying everything from us that is useful to them, that's common knowledge, but what's funny is that they even steal things that are already there for free. Why is the VeryCD community encouraged to do that? Is there any sane reason for it? Maybe UTF-8 tags?

So I have a bunch of questions I can't answer myself because I'm not able to read Chinese:

Why do they repack?
Who does the repacking? The VeryCD staff, the members or a sweatshop? Or is it done automatically by bots?
Are VeryCD users aware of where the music is coming from that they enjoy? That it already exists as other files.
Why is this site so popular?
Censorship? What's the official Chinese government's agenda on P2P in general, music piracy and ed2k in particular?
Is their VeryCD client legal? Or is it violating the GPL? In case VeryCD offers its own eMule mod, can I see the source, please?
Isn't it stupid to "repack" a whole release, instead of simply adding a different name in the ed2k link to the original one? Or is it just another way of saying: "It's not a rip off, it's not a dupe, we made it ourselves! Other file hash, you see?"

--87.122.13.109 08:54, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok to answer one of my questions myself...

Is their VeryCD client legal? Or is it violating the GPL? In case VeryCD offers its own eMule mod, can I see the source, please?

The page http://www.emule.org.cn/download/ offers source packages, I haven't downloaded them and checked them, but it appears to be all right. It's the page that VeryCD links to and you can see "VeryCD Build 0518" in the text, so they are related. There's one problem tho, there are two executable versions (stable and beta) but only one source package, so it seems, but they must release the source for every executable always.

--87.122.13.109 09:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What? You have a grudge against them or something? I can see serious POV in here, and Wikipedia is probably not the place for this or a flame war. Something I can tell you though is that the PRC government couldn't care less about P2P, unless it's something they censor. --antilived^{T | C | G} 11:03, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if I should laugh or cry at the retardness on this page... Yongke 06:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verycd and other contents

I found that PHP help files a mirror point to : China cn.php.net VeryCD Network . VeryCD works with another kind of contents? (not illegal and/or edonkey files). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.73.30.108 (talk) 17:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For the last edit

VeryCD 's a highly eMule/eDonkey-based site, both of their two clients are eMule mods (except disputed easyMule v2), the links for eMule and eDonkey network are reasonable to appear in See also even a little repeatedly. It is also to avoid from misleading some reader to think it as official eMule due to Fake eMule problem mentioned in the article. easyMule is VeryCD company's primary client. plz read carefully before edit.--Tomchen1989 (talk) 02:36, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

btw, actually in China there's too many (u can never imagine) "eMule" users cant tell the difference between "VeryCD" and "eMule".(some funny topics on eMule official forum[1], [2]) I'd say VeryCD's misleading is absolutely "successful".--Tomchen1989 (talk) 02:55, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Project now "virtually dead"?

Well, I assume so. I mean, what good for is a project so heavily clutching at eDonkey/eMule if all links were removed (as they actually did in 2011)? Who would go there any longer? Just wondering... -andy 77.7.126.97 (talk) 00:05, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]