Feb 21 2006

Seized waiters of Razorback!

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Published Tuesday February 21, 2006, with 13H58 (+0100 GMT)
By Guillaume Champeau

Avec plus d’un million d’utilisateurs, le plus gros serveur eDonkey/eMule du monde, Razorback, s’est est allé ce matin dans les mains de la police fédérale belge. Deux de ses administrateurs restent injoignables à l’heure où nous écrivons ces lignes.

Nous n’avons que très peu d’informations. L’ensemble des serveurs de Razorback ont été saisis ce matin vers 10H par la police fédérale belge. Bien que l’association Razorback soit domiciliée en Suisse, c’est en Belgique que le coeur du système était installé. Razorback n’hébergeait aucun contenu illégal et participait même très activement à la diffusion de contenus légaux tels que ceux de notre chaîne de téléchargement de logiciels ou les musiques libres de Jamendo.

Le serveur utilisé pour eMule et eDonkey était néanmoins un index de millions de fichiers échangés sur les réseaux peer-to-peer, dont une grande part étaient illicites. L’administrateur principal de Razorback avait indiqué par le passé qu’il était prêt à blacklister les fichiers rapportés à lui par les titulaires de droits d’auteur, mais il n’a jamais eu aucune réponse. Finalement l’ensemble du matériel a été saisi ce matin, nous indique une source proche de Razorback, tandis que deux administrateurs du serveur restent injoignables en ce début d’après-midi.

Razorback tentait de concilier légalité et P2P en participant à de nombreux projets légaux, en fournissant des stastiques précieuses pour les cabinets de marketing, et en diffusant des fichiers payants protégés par DRM, pour le compte de fournisseurs de contenus.

Mais surtout, la disparition de Razorback ne changera absolument rien pour les millions d’utilisateurs d’eMule, qui bénéficient déjà depuis de très nombreux mois d’un réseau entièrement décentralisé baptisé "Kad".

Nous vous informerons dès que nous aurons davantage d’informations.

English translated:
With more than one million users, the largest waiter eDonkey/eMule of the world, Razorback, east was gone this morning in the hands of the Belgian federal police force. Two of its administrators remain injoignables per hour when we write these lines.

We have only very few information. The whole of the waiters of Razorback were seized this morning towards 10H by the Belgian federal police force. Although Razorback association domiciled in Switzerland, it is in Belgium that the system main part was installed. Razorback did not lodge any illegal contents and even took part very actively in the diffusion of legal contents such as those of our chain of remote loading of software or the free musics of Jamendo.

The waiter used for follower and eDonkey was nevertheless an index of million files exchanged on the networks peer-to-peer, including one great part were illicit. The principal administrator of Razorback had indicated in the past that it was ready with blacklister the files brought back to him by the holders of royalties, but it never had any answer. Finally the whole of the material was seized this morning, indicates a source close to Razorback to us, while two administrators of the waiter remain injoignables at this beginning of afternoon.

Razorback tried to reconcile legality and P2P while taking part in many legal projects, by providing the stastic invaluable ones for the cabinets of marketing, and by diffusing paying files protected by DRM, for the account of content providers.

But especially, the disappearance of Razorback will not change absolutely anything for the million users follower, who profit already since from very many months of a network entirely decentralized baptized "Kad".

We will inform you as soon as we will have more information.

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