Information Preservation and Data Havens?

tiltowait asks: "An interesting story on LISNews.com this morning about savvy U.S. students photocopying textbooks in Mexico then returning them for refunds got me thinking about data havens. There's already few places on the web where you can exploit countries having different copyright durations and eligibility. On the flip side, there's restrictions such as broadcast blackouts and country-wide firewalls. But just as the rich can use of international tax loopholes and in light of the recent file-sharing victory, are there any projects out there, beyond the P2P networks, to distribute possibly-protected information by any means necessary? For example, your company may already outsource labor, but what about an off-site backup in case of an FBI raid?"

Comments

Re:Offshoring data? It's been done.

[nkh]

They've got three very small and rusty oil platforms, no computers and I doubt they have beds you could sleep in. Their computers (if they exist) must be located somewhere else, where any government can demand a legal access, so don't count on them to protect your data.

Why is this on slashdot?

[no_opinion]

Maybe I'm the only one who is confused, by why is a request for ideas on how to store content in violation of the law a news item on slashdot? I thought this was "news for nerds" not "news for criminals"?