- Razorback2
Razorback2 was a server (195.245.244.243) of the
eDonkey network , known for being able to handle 1 million users simultaneously, meaning that they had capacity for 1.3 million users and were indexing around 170 million files.Use of the Server
*Use of the Server by Jamendo, a French website on
Creative Commons music [http://www.jamendo.com/ ]
*Use by Ratiatum.com, a website about p2p for legal program sharing like Free software or other [http://www.ratiatum.com/tel.php] [http://www.ratiatum.com/logd231_Winamp.html ]
*Use byFolding@home [http://ratiatum.com/news2875_Razorback_pas_de_craintes_pour_les_utilisateurs.html ] [http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6176/Razorback:+no+fears+for+the+users]
*The servers was also an index server [http://ratiatum.com/news2888_Razorback_pas_d_effet_sur_le_traffic_eDonkey_et_eMule.html] and so it indexed all content including illegal content, according to Maître Sébastien Fanti this was legal in all European countries. In the past the principal administrator did offer to blacklist illegal content if the author of the content asked him to do so, but no one asked. [http://www.ratiatum.com/news2874_Les_serveurs_de_Razorback_saisis.html ]Confiscation by the police
On
21 February 2006 , the servers located in a Belgiandatacenter were confiscated by the Belgian police, and their operator, who lives inSwitzerland , was arrested. This was done after a local judge authorized the confiscation at the datacenter inZaventem nearBrussels , after a denouncement of theMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA). But users didn't notice any change in performance when the police confiscated the servers, [http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-is-unstoppable/ Edonkey traffic stayed the same] , it has even grown 20% since then. Fact|date=December 2007The
MPAA Chairman and CEODan Glickman , presented this raid as a "major victory":Since the confiscation, the owner has been released, and the trial has not started yet. Fact|date=December 2007
The raid on Razorback2 is part of a series of raids on
peer-to-peer file sharing websites orBitTorrent trackers initiated by theMPAA . Another well publicised example is the raid onThe Pirate Bay inSweden , 31st of May 2006. [http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_02_23.pdf]References
External links
* [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1102 Article at Slyck.com: Razorback Servers Seized]
* [http://www.razorback2.com/ Razorback2 page]
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