14 DAY TRIAL // Razorback 2 was the biggest server on the eDonkey peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which was used to transfer data from one user to another. Music companies have blamed P2P piracy for causing a dramatic decline in sales, and Hollywood is trying to prevent a similar impact on the movie business.
"Swiss authorities arrested the site's operator at his residence in Switzerland this morning and searched his home," the MPA (Motion Picture Association) stated. "At the same time, with the authority of a local magistrate, Belgian police shut down the site's servers which were found at an Internet hosting center in Zaventem near Brussels."
Last year, eDonkey users were estimated to be up to 3 million distributed over 100-200 servers. Razorback2 was the most popular server, used by about 1 million of them. While the music and movie industries have had some success in fighting against online piracy last year, the shut-down of P2P servers and winning judgments have caused nothing more than a migration to a new network. This pattern of behavior became extremely common after the shut down of another well known file-sharing service, Napster.