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Big Raid on German Edonkey Users

The German police searched the houses of more than 130 German edonkey users after logging actions on a popular edonkey server for more than two months. The police had a record of 40.000 IP addresses of which about 3500 could be traced back to German users. The police was not willed to reveal the servers name but admitted that the server itself was hosted in Germany.

According to heise online only the houses of users with more than 500 files in their share have been raided. About 14 gigabytes of data was saved in logfiles during the two month observation. About 800.000 file transfers have been logged as well. Rumors that emerged at the slyck forums point to dark-force-elite.org 85.25.134.173:4661 as the server which has been logged and probably is still logged.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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