Razorback2

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Razorback2 was a server (195.245.244.243) of the eDonkey network, known for being able to handle 1 million users simultaneously, meaning that they had capacity for 1.3 million users and were indexing around 170 million files.

[edit] Use of the Server

Use of the Server by Jamendo, a French website on creative common music [1]
Use by Ratiatum.com, a website about p2p for legal program sharing like Free software or other[2] [3]
Use by Folding@home [4] [5]
The servers was also an index server [6] and so it indexed all content including illegal content, according to Maître Sébastien Fanti this was legal in all European countries. In the past the principal administrator did offer to blacklist illegal content if the author of the content asked him to do so, but no one asked.[7]

[edit] Confiscation by the police

On 21 February 2006, the servers located in a Belgian datacenter were confiscated by the Belgian police, and their operator, who lives in Switzerland, was arrested. This was done after a local judge authorized the confiscation at the datacenter in Zaventem near Brussels, after a denouncement of the MPA. But users didn't notice any change in performance when the police confiscated the servers, Edonkey traffic stayed the same, it has even grown 20% since then.^{[citation needed]}

The MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman, presented this raid as a "major victory":

“

This is a major victory in our fight to cut off the supply of illegal materials being circulated on the Internet via peer-to-peer networks. By shaving the illegal traffic of copyrighted works facilitated by Razorback2, we are depleting other illegal networks of their ability to supply Internet pirates with copyrighted works which is a positive step in our international effort to fight piracy.

”

However, since the confiscation, the owner has been released, and the trial has not started yet.^{[citation needed]}