we donated $25,00 for
http://www.freemule.net today .. half of aMule-users donations ..
and why .. i'll quote a bit from the page:
Deadline expired
The deadline by when Marcus Falck, owner of eMule.de, had to surrender his domain and stop using the name eMule has expired on 6th of February. We believe that Mr Gravenreuth respectively Mr Syndikus, representing Firstway Medien GmbH, will now try to place an injunction against eMule.de.
Depending on the upcoming actions we will coordinate our efforts to regain the trademark "eMule".
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Current situation
On the first January 2004 Firstway Medien GmbH represented by Frhr. von Gravenreuth & Bernhard Syndikus moved to attack. They started off with one of the biggest German eMule sites, eMule.de by threatening them with an injunction and demanding that they stop using their domain name. As virtually all web pages using the name eMule are now in danger of the same fate, the eMule-project.net team decided to work together with the owners of eMule.de to defy Firstway Medien GmbH and to delete the eMule trademark. Now that they have shown their true intentions, an expensive legal confrontation is inevitable. Hoping to get the necessary financial resources to win this fight we created this page to keep you informed about the progress.
for more plz take a look at
http://www.freemule.netgreets
deltaHF