国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
An anonymous attacker uses a single computer to launch a DoS attack againstPanix.com, the world’s third oldest internet service provider (ISP), which is located in New York. The attack consists of thousands of copies of a simple message that computers use to start a two-way dialog. The Panix machines receiving the messages are forced to allocate so much processor capacity to handle the dialogs that they use up their resources and crash.
The eDonkey2000 peer-to-peer file sharing application, created by Jed McCaleb, is first released. The eDonkey client supports both the eDonkey2000 network and the Overnet network. eDonkey2000 brings one notable improvement to the filesharing community – the “swarming download,” the ability to download files piecemeal from multiple peers rather than a single peer. The improvement has the effect of using the full bandwidth of all of the peers for each file, which is a vast improvement in terms of speed over the model used by the more popular filesharing network, Napster.
Patrick W. Gregory (“MostHateD”), age 20, pleads guilty to charges related to his role as a founding member of a hacking ring known “GlobalHell” and is sentenced to twenty-six months imprisonment, three years supervised release, and US$154,529.86 in restitution. GlobalHell allegedly caused at least US$1.5 million in damages to various U.S. corporations and government systems. Gregory, a high school dropout who claims to have wanted to start his own computer security business, admits in a plea agreement to stealing telephone conferencing services from AT&T, LatitudeCommunications, and MCI and to holding conference calls between 1997 and 1999 with other hackers around the country.
RSA Security Inc. releases their RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography into the public domain, a few days before their patent is set to expire on September 20. (US No. 4,405,829) The relaxation of the U.S. government restrictions earlier in the year removed one of the last barriers to the world-wide distribution of cryptographic software systems.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff orders MP3.com, Inc. of San Diego to pay Universal Music Group up to US$250 million in damages for the willful infringement of copyright. MP3.com is a service that permits the public to register their privately owned music, then listen to copies over the Internet at any time without further authentication. Visit the MP3.com website.
2006
Google announces an expanded Google News Archive Search that includes content going back over two hundred years.
The Gpl-violations.org project prevails in court litigation against D-Link Germany GmbH regarding D-Link’s alleged copyright infringement in the use of parts of the Linux Operating System Kernel. The judgment finally provided a legal precedent proving that the General Public License (GPL) is valid and legally binding, and that it will stand up in German court. Read the judgment as a pdf.
大事详解编辑本段回目录
电驴11岁生日
历史最悠久的P2P文件共享网络之一，eDonkey 2000 Network（简称：eD2k） 也就是我们所熟悉的电驴迎来了自己的11岁生日！在那些古老的应用于文件交换的P2P网络中，只有电驴今天还在最广泛的为很多人服务。
下图为电驴的Windows版客户端，2001年左右开始在中国大学的校园中流行。
虽然今天电驴已经“离世”多年，虽然和它同时代的那些著名的P2P文件交换应用例如Napster，Kazaza，Gnutella等都早已被历史尘封或正逐渐从互联网上消失，然而电驴却“百足之虫，死而不僵”，真是一件奇事。
如前所述，如今最流行的电驴网络客户端是电骡（eMule），一个始于2002年的来自德国的开源客户端，它支持电驴网络，还自己实现了一个无服务器的网络KAD。此外由于它的开源特性，各式各样五花八门功能各异的修改版（mod）也被程序员们创造出来。
此外还有跨平台的能在Linux或MacOS等多种操作系统中运行的aMule，MLDonkey等客户端，它们也是开源的，并广受这些系统的用户们所喜爱。
由于这些开源客户端的存在，用户已经不再依赖电驴而能继续使用电驴网络交换文件。而且它们往往功能更强大，更易于使用，用户使用它们可以随时随地在 互联网上自由发布或搜索文件资源，而不受制于任何网站或软件开发者，如果你想发布资源，所做的只需要在eMule或aMule中选中你想共享的文件或者文 件夹，几个新的资源就发布了，接下来就是等待别人的下载。如果你想下载别人共享的资源，所做的只是需要在软件中搜索你希望的关键字或文件参数，搜索，下载 就行了。
由于电驴服务器被认为会促进盗版和帮助非法文件传播，架设它在不少国家都是非法的，2006年左右全球最大的几个电驴服务器相继被关闭，甚至管理员 被逮捕，所以现在的大多数电驴服务器都是间谍服务器，用来记录用户的非法下载信息。在一些国家每年都有超过万名的电驴网络使用者因为下载盗版收到警告信或 起诉书。
在一些国家和地区，有关部门通过机器人发送关键字查询监控使用者是否在搜寻一些非法文件。
在电驴的故乡——美国，受版权法律限制和对知识产权的重视影响，使用者数量早已大幅降低，但是在其它法律宽松或缺乏版权保护的国家和地区，使用者数 量却大幅增长，例如在中国大陆，使用者所占比例从2008年的3%-4%上升到2011年的16%-17%，电驴网络使用者数量已达世界第二，超过法国和 西班牙，涨势惊人。而传统的电驴使用大国意大利仍旧排在第一位。令人吃惊的是，美国最近的使用者数量也有回升的迹象。
2007年出现了风暴僵尸网络，它利用了修改过的电驴/Overnet协议，在风暴僵尸网络里没有可以停止该网络的中央“命令控制点”，据称有百万至上千万的电脑被感染，当年有报告指出风暴僵尸网络已强大到足以将整个国家从互联网上隔离。
这就是电驴，不管多少人爱它，多少人恨它，多少人利用它的大名行骗，多少人用它下载而被起诉，它都在互联网历史上抹下了浓重的一笔。
电驴，生日快乐！
