Hollywood hails shutdown of music-sharing server

[Bellamy]

Hollywood hails shutdown of music-sharing server

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss and Belgian police have shut down a major component of the eDonkey file-sharing network, used mainly to trade copies of copyrighted movies and music, the Motion Picture Association said on Wednesday.

 

Razorback 2 was the biggest server on the eDonkey peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which transfers data from user to user. Music companies have blamed P2P piracy for causing a drastic downturn in sales, and Hollywood is trying to prevent a similar impact on the movie business.

 

"Swiss authorities arrested the site's operator at his residence in Switzerland this morning and searched his home," the MPA said in a statement. "At the same time, on the authority of a local magistrate, Belgian police seized the site's servers located at an Internet hosting center in Zaventem near Brussels."

 

As of last year, eDonkey was estimated to have up to 3 million users spread over 100 to 200 servers. Razorback2 was the most popular server, used by about 1 million users.

 

While the music and movie industry have had a string of successes in their fight against online piracy in the last year, raiding P2P servers and winning judgements in court, in many cases users merely migrate to a different network -- a pattern than has happened many times since the original Napster service was shut down.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060222/wr_nm/media_edonkey_dc

 

I used to login Razorback 2 on eMule.

[.ItOnlyHurtsWhenIBreathe.]

Aww that sucks! Although, I didn't use but...bummer man.

I really hope MIRC will last FOREVER haha

[AllCeline]

Aww that sucks! Although, I didn't use but...bummer man.

I really hope MIRC will last FOREVER haha

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Ditto... that must suck. I never used eDonkey or eMule... I never understood it. lol. But it must suck for those who used it

[Krys]

hmph...so now they are blaming P2P file sharing...

[Célinefull]

Gah! Money grapping bastards! I use emule all the time!

[ticktock]

crap!!! i guess they'll shut down the other servers on emule...........so is there any other p2p software that is just as good as emule???? please don't mention kaazaa!!! lol!!

[Célinefull]

imesh?

[Krys]

i use Limewire