London - German authorities this week conducted raids to shut down seven servers utilized by the eDonkey peer-to-peer file-sharing network, following similar recent actions in the Netherlands and France. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) helped win German court injunctions against the DonkeyServer group in Germany. The group said its actions reduced the number of eDonkey users worldwide "by more than a million, knocking an estimated third of users off the network." Developers of the eDonkey file-sharing application last year agreed to cease distribution of the program and pay $30 million to the Recording Industry Association of America to ward off copyright litigation.

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