ShareReactor was at one time the big daddy of all ED2K link sites. That all ended when Swiss authorites came swarming down on its Administrator SimonMoon. They managed to knock ShareReactor offline. Not to long after that SimonMoon did a number of interviews to keep the community updated. He then launched RespectP2P.org as a place for people to follow his case, and things happening in the file sharing world in general. It has been some time since he conducted a one on one interview however, so P2PForums recently did exactly that. We would like to thank SimonMoon for taking some time out of his busy life to talk with us, and encourge our readers to make RespectP2P a regular stop during their online browsing.
P2PForums: Could you give our readers a quick over view of what Share Reactor was just incase they where living under a rock back then?
SimonMoon: ShareReactor has been recently described in a book as one of the earliest and largest hash link websites. It carried ED2K links of all sorts, not just one specified type of content.
P2PForums: So, how about a quick summery of how it all came to and end?
SimonMoon Some companies constantly attacked SR, but to no end. March 2004 was different. A complaint filed with the local police brought them to action. They searched my house, took the SR servers, my personal machines and I was nearly not able to stop them from taking all my other servers as well.
P2PForums: What is the latest news surrounding the case against you/ShareReactor?
SimonMoon: Since then this whole thing is rolling. It is still only an investigation, so far no judge saw a piece of this whole story and no charges have been made. Middle of March 2005 is a questioning scheduled with the leader of this investigation, which hopefully will end it. Then they decide if this whole thing evaporates into thin air, or if they press charges.
P2PForums: If they drop the charges is there much hope that Share Reactor will ever return as a website that provides ED2K hash links?
SimonMoon: This thing is simple. They drop the charges and I come out clean, ShareReactor is 100% legal. In that case I would continue it. Why would I stop doing something thats perfectly leagal? If its not, well I can’t do something thats illegal now can I?
P2PForums: If they do not drop the charges, what kind of penalties could you be facing?
SimonMoon: Thre years jail, mos tlikely the easy kind, or 100′000 Swiss francs fine. In my case, since I am not an offender that repeats his thing, i would get the fine. Thats about 85′000 USD or 65′000 Euros.
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