Hollywood hails shutdown of music-sharing server By Adam PasickWed Feb 22, 6:26 AM ET 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. hee-haw
thats r****ded. The music industry's sales are down because its music sux. and I didnt notice Return of the Jedi box office receipts hurting even though the DVD quality got leaked onto EDonkey before the movie came out.
It is inevitable they need to embrace the technology, the longer they fight it the more it will propagate. China will be hosting these things next, as well as Middle Eastern countries. Just no stopping it. DD
For the most part the Movies suck too, the only thing holding back wide spread DLing of them at this point is file size. DLing an album can still be an impulse thing if you are in on the swarm 20mins tops. A good DVD quality DL will take a day minumum usually more. Right now netflix is still the piraters best option. Quality of the product is not a high point in either case.
The DVD quality stuff doesn't normally get out until some time after the theater release. It might hurt DVD sales, but it doesn't hurt move ticket sales, which is what I am talking about.
Not to mention about people are eligible for citizenship in North Korea when they start hosting them in Kim Jung Il's palace...
The funny thing is people have been copying music and movies since the cassette and VHS came out. It didn't bother them before, because the copy was always an inferior product. They're whining now because the copies are just as good as the original. What they need to do is make the originals better. Until then, all they can do is whine.
bull****. it would have to be an amazing coincidence that cd sales started dropping right as downloading exploded for the two not to be related. first, we would have to believe that this "sucking" started only 5 or so years ago. of course, people have been complaining that music sucks forever. secondly, right before d/l'ing exploded, the biggest selling acts were britney spears, nsync, backstreet boys, eminem, limp bizkit, and creed. those would seem to be at the heart of what people think sucks, and yet they sold huge amounts of cd's. i think cd sales pretty much peaked in that time period. i think since britney, nsync, and eminem's albums came out within 9 weeks of each other in 2000, no cd has outsold them. not one in about 6 years. who says it didn't? just b/c you make a lot doesn't mean you couldn't have made more.