Razorback2
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Razorback2 were two servers (195.245.244.243:4661) 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.
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Use of the Server
- Use of the Server by Jamendo a French website on creative common music[]
- Use by Ratium.com,a website about p2p for legal program sharing like Free software or other[link] []
- Use by Ratium.com,a website about p2p for legal music sharing like music under creative common licences[link]
- Use by Folding@home [] [link]
Administrators and the project
The 2 administrators were Bile666 and Corpo []Confiscation by the police
On 23 May 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. In fact their server was also an index server[link] 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.[]
Kad and the future of eDonkey
The older protocol was replaced by Kademlia or Kad. Unlike its half-decentralized predecessor, Kad is a totally decentralized protocol, and uses UDP instead of TCP/IP. It is said that users didn't notice any change in performance with the protocol change, nor when police confiscated the servers.External links
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