Hollywood hails shutdown of music-sharing server

Swiss and Belgian police have shut down a major component of the eDonkey file-sharing network, used mainly to trade copies of copyrighted movies and music, the Motion Picture Association said on Wednesday. Razorback 2 was the biggest server on the eDonkey peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which transfers data from user to user. Music companies have blamed P2P piracy for causing a drastic downturn in sales, and Hollywood is trying to prevent a similar impact on the movie business.

Ouch, that’s quite a hard hit. Of course, this will not likely stop anyone from stealing movies or music, they will just migrate to BitTorrent. Head over to Yahoo.com for the full news posting.