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September 21, 2007

eDonkey kicked to the ground...a 'new front' in the piracy battle...

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The music industry has taken legal action to shut down seven German servers powering the eDonkey P2P file-sharing network. In a rather triumphalist emailed press release, the London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an umbrella for record labels, said it had embarked on a “new front” in its fight against piracy, winning seven injunctions in a variety of regional courts in Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leipzig and Frankfurt against the DonkeyServer network.

Indeed, this is a particularly aggressive strategy, following the recent shut-down of all French eDonkey servers and action against some in Holland. The IFPi claimed eDonkey’s global user base “has been reduced by more than a million… in the last few weeks… knocking an estimated third of users off the network” – and it will continue taking action, including prosecuting individual uploaders.



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