What can I say? The massive growth in peer to peer filesharing has sparked the development of brand new networks, great new ideas, wide varieties of software and even a modification community which sets out to improve the open-source clients available throughout the community.

Emule is one client which caught my attention immediately. Stemming from the slow-down of development of the edonkey client (Edonkey2000.com) in favour of a new project by the company which founded the edonkey network. Emule opens a brand new world in fast file-sharing... and being fair about it. You get what you give. The great thing about open-source is you have a community supported effort in improvement of the product, which is what has brought eMule so far, so fast.

eMule works differently than it's rival, the original eDonkey client. It uses a credit system which brings about true filesharing. The more you upload to a single client, the more they will share that same file with you. Generally, files are shared in parts. So you get what's available at the fatest speed, and with the new generation eMule, you can download multiple parts at multiple times... which makes getting what you need faster.

One thing that caught my attention with the eMule client is it's fast search abilities. You have the ability to send search strings to all available servers with the click of one button. The typical original edonkey client required you to click the "Extend Search" button over and over to get the results from multiple servers. This in it's self makes eMule superior.

The "mod" community also makes eMule an attractive client. Not only do these projects include recent eMule clients, but they also integrate new and innovative features including banning, better download management, upload throttling and much more.

eMule has definately got the attention of the shrinking eDonkey user community. And luring more back to the scene from competeting commercial clients such as kazaa and morpheus, and there's a lot of reason why there's such a flood coming back to revive the eDonkey network. No spyware, no nags, no ads... More availablity and most importantly of all, the available of large files which would otherwise be unavailable to the general internet community as a whole.

eMule gets my attention, and keeps it with the rapid developement and bug tracking they've displayed from the beginning of the project. The community and developers get my thumbs up because it's community development at it's best.