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 eMule 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 eMule, 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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Do not worry about the users data taken by the belgium police on Razoback servers : we've been given the insurance that no nominative data was kept in.
With about a million users and many millions of files, Razorback couldn't technically keep a connections log with the users's IP. All the useful data where kept in RAM memory and where erased when the hardware was taken by the police. The info is due to a source close to Razorback.
One of the Admin has been joined today ; it seems one other is kept by the police.
As a consequence of the matter, Razorback cooperation on legal P2P transfer ( Jamendo, Ratiatum ) and also the help given on the human genoma research is over.
We would take any help, specially sharing bandwith for the freeware and shareware downloads on http://www.ratiatum.com. You just need an e-donkey or emule client, and update links on http://www.ratiatum.com/tel.php?mode=aide ( sorry, it really looks like a bad translation, isn't it ? )
We hope the soon coming back of Razorback, who really helped in the past legal P2P sharing.
