The Pirate Bay Returns June 5, 2006
Posted by AskMike in P2P.2 comments
Popular Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay came back online Saturday night, after being shut down in a police raid.
last week and forced to relocate to The Netherlands. The raid prompted
a response from Pirate Bay supporters, which attacked the Web sites of
the Swedish police and government.
The government Web site was
offline Saturday after a flood of requests for a file overloaded its
servers. The file requested was a picture of Swedish Justice Minister
Thomas Bodstroem, who has fought to make file sharing illegal in a
country with traditionally lax copyright laws.
Sweden last year passed a law banning the
transmission of copyrighted material over the Internet without paying
royalties. It is believed the crackdown on The Pirate Bay came in
response to this legislation, although Swedish media outlets accuse the
United States of pressuring local authorities to act.
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ThePirateBay.org Raided – Servers Seized May 31, 2006
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Early reports suggest that The PirateBay has had its servers seized by Swedish police.
The site disappeared offline this morning, with no explanation. According to Slyck News,
which claims to have spoken to a spokesperson at the site, the servers
were seized in a police raid, with police investigating whether or not
illegal activities were being conducted.
“”The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if
there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure),”
ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep” told Slyck.com.”
Sweden’s copyright laws are incredibly liberal, a fact which has
allowed the site to operate the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker with
impunity. There is still doubt as to whether or not the site has
actually committed any crimes – it merely lists Torrents, rather than
hosting copyrighted content.
Two PirateBay personnel were arrested, but vowed to move the site to
another country if Swedish authorities took them offline permanently.
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Ciao, Razorback2 – largest eDonkey Server Shutdown February 22, 2006
Posted by AskMike in Computers & Internet, P2P.1 comment so far
Last night I sat in front of my computer, fired up eMule as usual. However, something wasn’t right, where was Razorback2 server went, the one I connected to all the time, the one had largest number of users connected to every hour. It wasn’t there….
Then the sad news came in…
MPAA Rejoices Over eDonkey Shutdown – BetaNews
The
Motion Picture Association of America is claiming a major victory in
the battle against illicit file sharing with the shutdown of a key
server used to index content on the eDonkey2000 network. Razorback2 was
the largest centralized server and was used by over 1 million file
swappers.The server’s operator was arrested in Switzerland while
the computers were seized from a hosting facility near Brussels. The
MPAA heralded the arrest in a statement, saying the man’s home was also
searched for more information on those keeping eDonkey’s 3.5
million-user P2P network running.<script language=”javascript”
src=”http://ads.betanews.com/adserve.iframejscript/www.betanews.com/MPU@Top?1867335603″></script>Even with the shutdown of Razorback2, however,
eDonkey isn’t likely to disappear any time soon. A decentralized method
of indexing files on the network called Kademila, or KAD, has begun to
pick up steam. The technology has been shown to outperform
eDonkey2000’s basic system for transferring large files.In addition,
eDonkey has proven resilient to legal attacks in the past. The
network’s creator, MetaMachine, is facing an RIAA lawsuit and said it was “throwing in the towel”
last September. But an open source iteration of the software, known as
eMule, continues to be developed and is now in use by the vast majority
of eDonkey downloaders.In testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee in September, MetaMachine president Sam Yagan warned that,
“The next generation of open P2P applications will travel even further
down the road of anonymity and secrecy.
Technorati Tags: p2p, internet, file sharing, peer-to-peer
Foldershare – Sharing without boundaries February 21, 2006
Posted by AskMike in Computers & Internet, P2P, Web 2.0.add a comment
Ever dreaming about keeping important files at your fingertips – anywhere. All file changes are automatically synchronized between linked computers, so you are always accessing the latest documents, photos, and files.
Here’s one for you, FolderShare, to let you find, access, share your files anywhere, for free!
Foldershare is a peer-to-peer service that lets you share files
and folders on your PC with anyone connected to the Foldershare
service. It’s easy to use and offers industrial-strength security
control.
You can adminstrate Foldershare either from the desktop
client application or via the Foldershare website, but you can only add
or remove files to or from libraries (Foldershare’s name for shared
folders) using the desktop application.
Each library’s settings can be customised individually, including whether you want it to use automatic or manual replication.
You
can choose whether individual users – added via email at your
invitation – have reader, contributor, editor or senior editor access
rights, and you can add and remove users or change their settings at
will.
Files can also be accessed by logging in to the Foldershare
site and clicking on the ‘placeholder’ file links. This will initiate a
download from any available PCs on your peer network.
However, as
the Foldershare service stores no data, at least one of your peer
group’s PCs must be running and able to accept incoming connections.
Foldershare is also ideal for
business users who need to share files between locations, but can’t
afford a virtual private network. Clients are authenticated using RSA
key certificates before a connection is allowed and file transfers are
made using 256bit AES encryption. Incoming ports are only opened for
the duration of a transfer.
2005 Nov, Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider. Deal aligns with Windows Live goal of connecting customers to the people and information that matter most to them.
Then Foldershare became free!
- Share files up to 2 GB in size
- Unlimited file transfers – no limits on quantity or size of files transferred
- Any file type – files are synced and transferred in their original format
Technorati Tags: p2p, file sharing, peer-to-peer
