I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure

djabbour writes "I2hub, the only p2p client that catered to internet2 users has shutdown today due to legal concerns. A few hours ago, any user on i2hub got a message which read 'RIP 11/14/2005. It was a good run. Forced to shut down by the industry.' The i2hub site has been shutdown, and new clients can no longer login to the i2hub server."

Comments

Re:I'll certainly miss it.

[dknj]

Ugh ignore the crap spewn from most of the replies here. They are probably freshman/sophomore students who are doing "scientific tests" from their linux box plugged into a router in their dorm room. As an ex-employee of a major university (17,000+ students), I can tell you that it was not uncommon for us to pull 48Mbit/sec from other Internet2 hosts. From major service providers we'd usually pull somewhere around 16-20Mbit/sec. On a normal day we saw 15% utilization of our OC-3 connection. I2Hub, kazaa, and the like caught us off guard and raised our utilization to over 40%. Needless to say, the university president was not happy at shelling out extra money for additional bandwidth. This introduced each dormitory to a nice pipe of 10Mbit/sec with abusive users sent warnings and then losing their dormitory network access.

Now we have had major research projects go on where we have a solid 70Mbps transfer going with Cornell or some other major university for a week or so. In the name of research, its great. Sharing copywrited material? I think not. I made it a habit to send a stern warning to users about the implications of using p2p clients. When they did not heed my warning shots, I usually got them taken down on academic charges (its a bitch when you get kicked out of school for sharing the latest Britney Spear's album).

And for an idea of our infrastructure, we had fiber running between every building, 1000BaseT connections everywhere in the university (with the exception of dorms, which we had purposely limited to 100Mbit between rooms), Fiber between our SANs and major servers, and Infiband interconnect for our 224 node Linux clusters. Speed is definitely not an issue with universities, their budgets for hardware are insane (like a $1 million grant for computer equipment alone in one of their new buildings)

I'm sure there are other readers here who actually work for major networks who can share their stories as well.

Re:Oh. No.

[moro_666]

exactly free as china, go check how many files you can easilly download in china and how many files can you get from the servers in united states ... you'd be pretty surprised that china outnumbers you by more than 3 times (as would be estimated by the population). not even mentioning that the government of china is laughing at riaa and refusing to take down their search engine which also provides all kind of links to movies, mp3-s, torrents etc.

and the united states are so free .... exactly where right now ? you have no respect for human rights, you *invade* countries in middle east and your own lawsystem has made it impossible to breath air without getting sued for it.

you have the opportunity to drive a SUV in china , and you can eat a hamburger in china ... and if you think that the political stuff is so not-free in china, go and try to push communism through in america (everybody rich,working and happy model), you will be killed on the first road that you cross on your way to parliament my friend ...

nvm. if you are so blind to see that your country is "free", then there's really no point to have this discussion at all ...