Feb 24, 2006 : Razorback2 Server Operator Arrested

📅 February 24, 2006 - The Motion Picture Association of America (mpaa.org) announced on Thursday that authorities in Belgium and Switzerland arrested the operator of a heavily trafficked server for the eDonkey peer-to-peer network on Wednesday.

The Razorback2 server is estimated to have indexed 170 million files, "millions" of which were copyrighted movies, software and music. The man was arrested at his home in Switzerland, while Belgian authorities confiscated the site's servers at an Internet hosting center near Brussels.

The MPAA says the actions will hinder access to illegal and "offensive" online material, including child pornography, bomb-making instructions and terrorist training videos. Razorback2 accommodated up to 1.3 million users simultaneously. Though it did not actually store content, it kept an index of the shared files of computers on the network.

The actions taken by authorities may temporarily affect the efforts of file-sharers using eDonkey clients such as eMule. The index server list, however, refreshed when client programs are restarted.

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