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ShareReactor

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ShareReactor was a popular index site for files on the eDonkey network. ShareReactor did not host any files; instead, the links it contained were accessible through an eDonkey client. The site was founded by Gowenna on August the 5th 2001 and was initially located at http://gowenna.da.ru which was only a shadow domain. The site got renamed to ShareReactor in November 2001 on a decision of the founder to name it something that reflected the group effort. In January 2002 Gowenna died in a car accident. The site administration was continued by Christian Riesen (aka Simon Moon) who until then only did technical backgrounds and was also the host.

It was taken down by Swiss Police on March 10th, 2004 due to the suspicion of breach of copyright and trademark laws. The investigation was reportedly initiated by complaints from Swiss anti-piracy organisation SAFE at the request of several large corporations, one of them presumably being Columbia Tristar Inc. The fact that the police didn't look at seized servers for more than two and a half months suggests that the SAFE's goal wasn't the prosecution, but taking offline ShareReactor.

See also: File sharing, eMule, ed2k link

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