IFPI forcing shutdown of several edonkey servers

19 Sep 07 14:57 by Liggy in category Uncategorized To news archive

The German subsidiary of the IFPI claims a big success over an operator of edonkey servers. After achieving several preliminary injunctions, the operator was forced to shutdown his servers which – according to the IFPI – led to a big impact on the edonkey network since these were among the biggest available nodes. This makes a total of 16 edonkey servers that had to be shutdown this year. Several preliminary injunctions against other edonkey server operators are due to be send out during the following days.

While in Germany the operators cannot be sued for copyright infringement directly, they are usually accused for supporting illegal activities. However it is unclear which tactics were used by the IFPI this time.

With the availability of Kademlia and source exchange in recent versions of eMule, one can highly doubt that the shutdown of some servers – even the bigger ones – will have a big impact on file sharing with eMule at all. Please let us know if you suffer from bad performance with this filesharing network – you probably won’t.

6 Comments

Waethorn
Posts: 89
Posted on: 19 Sep 07 20:59
edonkey still exists?!? well, not much longer.... :S
guest
Posts: 15288
Posted on: 19 Sep 07 22:00
Emule is not dependent on servers anymore. Just log onto overnet and it's running completly serverless. IFPI is wasting their time. Give us some reasonly priced downloadable MP3's w/o DRM. I've been ready to buy my music online for almost 10 years now, but all I can get is overpriced defective DRM files :r
BitRate
Posts: 411
Posted on: 20 Sep 07 16:23
These are large index servers which are being shut down. They did this before with Razorback but it didn't have much effect. The eDonkey 2K network will probably still survive.
headquarter84
Posts: 2010
Posted on: 21 Sep 07 06:06
hopefully kademlia would be good enough to handle the loss ... i'm not connecting to the servers anymore anyway... even before DonkeyServers went down... Razorback & DServers R.I.P. :c :c
Hemispasm
Posts: 5273
Posted on: 22 Sep 07 13:23
i am noticing a rather big perfomance drop myself over the last week.
guest
Posts: 15288
Posted on: 03 Oct 07 14:07
well can somebody please tell me what does exist.and witch sever i need and how to get it, :c

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