Recovery For Donkey

[GhostShip]

This povides more empirical proof if any was needed of the futility in attacking network hubs or central indexers, like weeds others just spring up to take the place of those removed.

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1229

On May 23, 2006, German authorities with technical assistance provided by the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), launched one of the largest raids in file-sharing history. The most critical target of this raid was Razorback2, which functioned as one of the largest eDonkey2000 indexing servers. At its peak, it was home to approximately 1.2 million individuals, sharing 170 million files. Additionally, German authorities throughout the hinterlands searched 130 premises, confiscating evidence in the form of computers and hard drives. The IFPI reported these individuals were providing over 8,000 files each to the eDonkey2000 community. Furthermore, over 3,500 individuals were citied for distributing unauthorized material online.

The massive raid had its desired affect. According to German firm IPoque, which provides network monitoring and P2P throttling technology to ISPs, P2P traffic declined dramatically after the raid. Observing data compiled by IPoque’s PRX hardware, the level of P2P traffic dropped 15% after the raids. The sampling was collected from the activities of approximately 250,000 individuals, traversing both small local area and wide area ISP networks that employ IPoque’s PRX hardware.

Yet approximately 10 days after the raid, the predictable happened. The decline in P2P traffic stopped and began to plateau. Several days later, P2P traffic once again was on the rise. After only 21 days after the massive raid, P2P traffic was once again at the identical level previous to the events of May 23.

It worries me that the network was so easily hit on this wide scale but I think the userbase recovery from the loss of one single server was still something to be proud of.

Winmx lost all of its Peer Cache servers and users managed to recover the network, but saw the userbase plummet then level out, this trend is thankfully at an end and in the last week alone we have seen a substantial amount of new and returning users.

We along with most other p2p networks users support the free exchange of files between users, not everyone on a p2p network is an infringer.

[GhostShip]

For those interested this friday sees the start of an important case concerning indexing of files as oppsed to actual hosting of files and the legality surrounding it.

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1228

Last month, the administrator and owner of ShareConnector finally received a summons to appear in a Rotterdam court this Friday. The charges brought against him are “professionally (complicity) copyright violation and participation in a criminal organization.”

“If eDonkey links were illegal by law, we would never have started a site like ShareConnector," the administrator and owner of ShareConnector told Slyck.com. "Even there's nothing illegal about it they still cowardly managed to confiscate our servers and property. They are even accusing us of false charges, which conclude there are illegal copies of movies on our servers. That's why we'll fight for our rights against injustice to the bitter end!”

Good Luck to those fighting for an honest legal framework here, anyone making false allegations malicously as in this case should be fined according to there earnings I think 
Lets see the Cartels lose and face a massive compensation claim for making false allegations closing something that holds no actual content as they claim. 

[SamSeeSam]

More free advertising... If only they had the simple sense of taking a look at themselves, instead of making scapegoats of others, which they can't... Things would improve for them and more importantly for consumers
"Participation in Criminal organisation" That's funny, Seems as if HE was the one stealing or something...
I'm happy they picked someone who can fight against them... Hope they end up with a bloody nose As it was mentioned in the article, there is nothing explictly saying "this is illegal" So this does in one way, seem the case lke that of piratebay.

By the way, could someone explain what exactly is'criminal' in this case... I did read that article, but couldn't make out what exactly made this case criminal. As it was mentioned, in most countries it would fall under the banner of 'civil'.

[GhostShip]

There was a legal decision made in Germany that said linking to warez sites etc from a website is illegal, this should not cover using an indexing server or I can see legal problems for many search engines ahead.