German Cops Bust 3,500 File Sharers

Providing song files to other music fans through the use of the eDonkey file sharing application turned into a pain in the ass when a widespread record industry sweep took place in Germany. An eDonkey. IFPI said some of the accused had provided as many as 8,000 songs for sharing purposes. The organization claims legal physical sales of music have dropped by a third in five years while 400 million music files were illegally downloaded in 2005. It should be noted that IFPI did not mention the legal sales of digital music in Germany. According to the MacWorld UK DiggThis | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.