P2P Is Unstoppable

Written by Ernesto on April 12, 2006 

On February 21 the MPAA claimed a “major victory” in their war against piracy. The Belgian police managed to shut down Razorback2’s servers. Razorback2 was considered to be the heart of the Edonkey2000 network, with over a million users.

Proud as they were, the MPAA issued a press-release with some convincing quotes:

MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said:

“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.”

Worldwide Anti-Piracy Director John G. Malcolm stated:

“Razorback2 was not just an enormous index for Internet users engaged in illegal file swapping, it was a menace to society, and I applaud the Swiss and Belgian authorities for their actions which are helping thwart Internet piracy around the world.”

But What Really Happened?

….

Nothing

, Edonkey traffic stayed the same.

razorback

At least that is what Cachelogic’s Vice President David Ferguson concludes from their traffic statistics on the Edonkey2000 network.

The red arrow indicates the day Razorback2 was shut down. As you can probably see, there was no impact at all on the Edonkey traffic.

But what does it mean? Probably that these raids have no effect at all, it’s just reallocating the “problem”.

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7 Responses

1 Apr 12, 2006 at 22:02 by t d

well thats just stupid

2 Apr 13, 2006 at 12:15 by kinetic81

hahahahahahahahahahha!

3 Apr 13, 2006 at 15:40 by kron

well.. it was predicted. Stupid they re :))

4 Apr 14, 2006 at 02:18 by c

Yeah, no one can defeat the decentralized, communal network of P2P.

5 Apr 15, 2006 at 20:49 by chester

another futile attempt by mpaa, as they lash out , effectively doing nothing, nothing but probably boosting shares as more and more people learn of these p2p nets. will they ever get it … ? this is what we call grasping at straws.

6 Apr 19, 2006 at 21:38 by chris

the file sharing abilitys, and users, of the curent bittorent P2P network will continue to grow , there is no way to stop it now. ( pandoras box is open )

Share on !!!!

7 May 23, 2008 at 20:26 by Anonymous

The MPAA is a horrible selfish monster that is pushing itself on society, like a rape.

“simply making a non-commercial backup, either virtually on a device or physically on another disc, which is protected under United States law. These numbers are further suspicious due to the private nature of the study, which cannot be publicly checked for methodology or validity.”

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