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Danish Edonkey Server Raid
posted by mpawlo on Monday September 23, @02:56AM
from the shakespeare dept.
Criminal Law If you are running an Edonkey server and live in Denmark, you might want to reconsider one of these activities. Danish Antipiratgruppen ("Anti piracy group") has staged a raid of one private individual allegedly hosting an Edonkey server. Edonkey is a file-sharing program without a central server, which makes it different and harder to target than for example the centralized peer-to-peer technology used by Napster.



The authorities aided Antipiratgruppen in its raid presenting a search warrant to the alleged server host when he returned to his house with his family during the evening of September 16, 2002. According to Antipiratgruppen both the server host and the users of the service will face demands for damages from Antipiratgruppen. The search warrant was published online by the defendant, but was later removed on advice of counsel.

Description of the search and documentation (in Danish).

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    Error (Score:1)
    by LuYu on Monday September 23, @11:02AM (#321)
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    Napster was not p2p architecture. P2p is by nature decentralized. Napster was client-server. It had a central point of attack because the Napster company owned all the servers through which the files passed.

    This eDonkey thing looks like an intelligent p2p system (ie. p2p plus error checking).

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    Re:Error (Score:1)
    by crispy on Monday September 30, @12:48PM (#329)
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    To pick a nit, the server only provided an index. Once one system found another system that was sharing the file it wanted, it negotiated a direct connection. So it was a kind of p2p, because the actual work was done by two clients even though they could only find each other through the centralized server.

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