ke RAN DOM NOTES JEREMY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER The eDonkey2000 world suffered a blow. eDonkey, the official client for the eDonkey2000 network was shut down. In place of the client offerings of all chat the network had to offer through it was a notice saying, “The eDonkey2000 Net- work is no longer available. If you steal music or movies, you ate breaking the law. Courts around the world - including the United States Supreme Court - have tuled that. businesses and individuals can be prosecuted for illegal download- ing, “You are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material. Your IP address is KX.XXX.XXX.XX and has been logged. Respect the music, download legally. Goodbye Everyone.’ These are known tactics of the record- ing industry. When Grokster was shut. down, nothing ever became of users who accessed the website (which is perfectly legal) On face value for those notin the know, it may appear as though this punched a huge hole into the file-sharing world. MetaMachine, a company that created the eDonkey2000 network as well as the eDonkey client was wiped: out and forced to pay a $30 million settlement to the record industry, For those actually in the know, the blow. is nothing more then a pitiful tap against the file-shar- ing world. MetaMachine was a US based for-profit company. This is in the same jurisdiction that had the MGM v Grokster case which concluded that if a company encourages copyright infringe- ment, then they can be held liable for the copyright infringement that happens on that network. MetaMachine couldn't fight the case, so they settled. Is the net- work dead? What about OverNet, the “exclusive” network it connects to? Both struggle for democracy ‘VIVIAN BELIK THE UNITER (UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG) WINNIPEG (CUP). -- Patrick Elie, former Haitian cabinet minis- ter turned social justice activist, cut straight to the point when address- ing his third Winnipeg audience last Tuesday afternoon at the University of Winnipeg. “I don't want to bore myself by repeating the same things all over again, so the exercise I would like to do with all of you today, is take a number of myths and outright lies about Haiti and shoot them down,” said Elie as he launched into a speech that marked the second-last week. of a six-week speaking tour organized. by the Canada-Haiti Ac- tion Network. Commanding the audience's at- tention for an hour and a half, Elie On the Digital Front eDonkey 2000 Shuts Down are reportedly very lively as if nothing happened at all. The eDonkey2000 network itself has hundreds, if not, thousands of independ- ent clients that connects to it. The most popular is the open source non-US and not-for-profit client eMule. Rough es- timates show that the client has about 90% of the presence within the network and development continues smoothly along for the client. All the servers that hold the network together are also in- dependently controlled. Overnet also is active — though significantly harmed by the loss of MetaMachine. Two very well known ways of getting reconnected is through either an old version of eDon- key (which doesn't auto-de-install on start-up) or simply getting a hacked ver- sion of the client (eDonkey Lite) eDonkey2000 is an older network and has built up to being one of the _heavy- weight networks. While not known for incredible speed, it is known for very long retention of files (meaning, they last a very long time on the network) eMule, the open source alternative which also connects to Kad, also hosts a content database which is a collection of file hash-links to completely legal content (Creative Commons Licensed/ Public Domain/GNU Open Source Software/etc) It recently implemented obfuscation which encrypts data trans- ferring to and fromthe client. It doesn't make a user anonymous, but it by- passed bandwidth throttling issues with ISP's or local area networks. Throttling is also known as packet shaping, It slows down the speed of the connection for the specific port the protocol connects to. ISP’s use this to save bandwidth. So is this a blow to MetaMachine? Defin- itely, A blow to the file-sharing world? Absolutely not. passionately delivered his lecture as if he were addressing a concert hall of people when, in reality, he was only speaking to about 30. Having served in the Haitian gov- ernment from 1991-1995 as Secre- tary of State for National Defense as well as Coordinator for the fight against drug trafficking, Elie offered great insight into Haiti's past and present struggle for democracy. Drawing examples from Haiti's colonial history, which is marked by slavery and revolution, Elie painted the portrait of a country that has en- dured much suffering and violence to achieve its current independence and freedom. Elie was determined to dissolve the stereotypical Western vision of Haiti as being one-of the, most vio- lent and poor countries in the world that is also unwilling to embrace OVER THE EDGE NEWSPAPER. SEPTEMBER 27, 2006 Dig Your Roots Talent Search Underway Season 5 is The Magic Number for Creative Jazz Music Ottawa - The National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA/ANREC) is calling for sub- missions for its national talent develop- ment initiative. After five successful years with Hip Hop, Spoken, Word, Electronic Dance, Roots, and Aborig-" inal, this year will see the continuation of the series with our sixth project, “Dig ‘Your Roots — Creative Jazz’. “This year we want to focus on a project that will look beyond the main- stream and feature artists who are.creat- ing jazz-infused and jazz-inspired cre- ative music,’ says National Coordinator Melissa Kaestner. “In a sense, anything that is new, progressive, innovative, and creative that has a jazz connection will be considered.” Dig Your Roots features independ- ent artists from all across Canada on its website as well as through a series of compilations and live concert broad- casts, Artists are invited to submit their work to be featured on the Dig Your Roots website, where up to 100 artists will be showcased, Following a national selection process, 15 of these artists will. be chosen to appear on compilations to be released in the spring of 2007. These artists will take part in a series of region- al concerts, each of which will be live coast-to-coast-to-coast on participating radio stations. This could be the last year for Dig Your Roots. While the NCRA/AN- REC will be seeking further funding to keep the project going, “Dig Your Roots — Creative Jazz” marks the last year Students sit outside on an increasingly rare sunny day. Former Haitian Minister provides glimpse into Haiti's democracy. In reality we see these poor illiter- ate [Haitian] people pursuing dem- ocracy with so much resolve that they are willing to sweat and bleed to obtain it... I submit that Haitians are not only ready for. democracy but that they know more about it than the people who tried to export democracy to Haiti!” said Elie, pro- voking rounds of applause. Having been employed in the government while the controversial Lavalas party was in power, Elie was well aware of the many critics that publicly opposed Lavalas and its elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. “Aristide has been slandered — we hear that Aristide has been the worst dictator in the nation's hist- ory. We also hear that Arisitide was overthrown {in 2004] by a popular uprising even though he had been elected three years earlier by [an almost] 90 percent majority,’ said Elie, cautioning to the audience that these are “lies that are easy to spread around when [the minority govern- ment] controls the press.” Elie was also vigilant in speaking out about the myths which have been created regarding Haiti as a- “narco state’, a “rogue state’, anid a “failed state,’ To one of these accusa- tions, Elie colourfully responded: “che real narco state is the US — as long as the US is snorting so much cocaine and making it such a good proposition to deal in cocaine rather than coffee, this trade is going to [continue]. It was during question period, however, that the issue of Canadian- Haitian relations arose. “The cardinal sin that the Canad- for the funding agreement with Corus Entertainment. “Everyone, including Corus, has been really happy with the project, notes Chad Saunders, NCRA/ ‘SANREC President. “Both musicians ‘and campus and community stations have embraced the project and really ran with it. All of the project coordinators have done a fantastic job, We may look to extend the project, or to change it up a bit with an interactive website or record- ing more artists. In any case, this 5-year milestone is a true cause for celebration, and the creative jazz project will be a toast to the success of Dig Your Roots.’ Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2006. For more information visit www.Dig YourRoots.ca JENNIFER HAWKE ian government has committed was first of all to participate in the for- cing of a de facto government on the Haitian people and then to train a police force that is controlled not by an elected government but an illegit- imate government,’ said Elie. “To see Canada be part of a coup detat was. a horrifying surprise,’ commented Elie who hopes that the Canadian government will’ break with the policy that they have been following over the last three to five years and start promptly working with the elected leadership of Haiti. None of this can happen however, said Elie as he spoke to the members of the audience, “unless you are able to put some kind of pressure on the government.”