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MPAA Says German eDonkey File-Sharing Hub Shut Down

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 7, 2005 - 5:27am.
Los Angeles -- The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently announced that a highly-trafficked German website that provided links to downloads on the eDonkey peer-to-peer file-sharing network has been shut down, the result of lawsuits filed against sites where copyrighted TV shows are being traded for free. The eDonkey site shutdown comes in the wake of a new study from U.K.-based CacheLogic, which found that eDonkey has recently overtaken BitTorrent as the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing application worldwide. The MPAA said that a German regional court granted an injunction against the site -- The Realworld, which offered 900 TV shows; its operator, German resident Wulf Rajek; and the Swiss Web hosting firm that housed The Realworld. The defendants face copyright infringement damage claims and up to five years in prison under German criminal law.
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