VeryCD.com

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VeryCD.com is a Chinese website that shares files via eD2k links. The website began in September 2003 by Huang Yimeng (Chinese: 黄一孟). In June 2005, Shanghai Source Networking Technology Co., Ltd (Chinese: 上海维西网络科技有限公司, "维西" is pronounced "Wéi Xī" which is similar to "VeryCD", someone also calls it "VeryCD公司" which means "VeryCD company") was established. It is a for-profit organization headquartered in Shanghai, China. Now VeryCD.com is one of the most popular file-sharing (via eD2k links) websites in China.

VeryCD.com "aims to be the biggest and the most user-friendly P2P seed database website in the world.","Its declaration against corruption from capitalized operation kept the website organized and free of advertisement abuse."But some people thought that it is contradicted since VeryCD was already a commercial company which got lots of advertisement on the website. It was also reported that the creator of the website and leader of VeryCD company, Huang Yimeng had already more than ten millions yuan.

Two eDonkey Network clients, eMule VeryCD Mod and easyMule are developed by VeryCD company.

eMule VeryCD Mod is based on eMule and opensourced. Its official website emule.org.cn was criticized that it misleads users and pretends to be eMule's official website.
easyMule version 1 is eMule-based and opensourced. Since v2.0, easyMule has closed its source. VeryCD company's developper claimed that easyMule 2.0 is written from scratch by them own. On 1 July 2009, an aMule developer wrote a topic on VeryCD's group, claiming that easyMule is build over code of aMule which is a GPLed eD2k client, and asking for the code. But this was said to be "purely irresponsible nonsense" and refused by VeryCD's owner Huang Yimeng.
easyMule(version 1 and 2) was named "dianlv" (Chinese: 电驴) in Chinese, which is also eDonkey's Chinese name. Some chinese people also call eMule "dianlv". EasyMule's chinese name is considered to be another misleading.
All the eMule VeryCD Mod and easyMule clients have search word filter to prevent users from searching some political or pornographic words.