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Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-just-a-disgruntled-fan dept.

miller60 writes "Web servers hosting musician Peter Gabriel's web site have gone missing from their data center. "Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night — Monday morning," reads a notice at PeterGabriel.com. The incident is the latest in a series of high-profile equipment thefts in the past year, including armed robberies in data centers in Chicago and London. How secure is your data center?"

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  1. Re:Stop the Madness! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is, this is just utterly devastating.

    The repercussions of this show what kind of destruction something like this can bring ... Wikipedia's page on Gabriel is grinding to a halt as millions of confused people log on to figure out who he was ... tens, maybe even hundreds, of people are rushing to change their credit card number after they realize that they purchased something through that website ... and on top of all that, this sudden rush back into the spotlight just might cause Gabriel to release another album, possibly setting popular music back decades again. No, this is Peter Gabriel. The guy who sang "Red Rain" and "Games Without Frontiers", who did the Last Temptation of Christ Soundtrack, who fronted Genesis when Genesis was the most amazing Prog-Rock band on Earth. The one who's up there with David Byrne and Brian Eno as popular and respected trailblazing musicians who've transcended their pop roots.

    You're thinking of Peter Cetera. Of Chicago and The Karate Kid 2 Soundtrack. I assume you're young, so it's an understandable mistake.
  2. Re:Musicians seem to have crappy luck by twistedsymphony · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Charted" where? Amazon does not count.
    I know BT made #1 on the US Dance charts TWICE. I don't know enough about Hybrid to comment on them.

    BT has had more music used in movies, commercials, and remixed by other artists than you've had hot dinners. Just because it's a genre you don't listen to doesn't make it irrelevant, and if it is a genre you listen to them you must be living under a rock.
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  3. Re:Musicians seem to have crappy luck by Monkey+Angst · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jimmy Page had all his tapes for Outrider stolen, and was forced to rerecord the entire album from scratch. In that case I expect the theft was targeted, while in this case, I imagine it's just guys busting into a data center to steal equipment. This has also happened to, ironically, Thievery Corporation.
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  4. EVERYBODY!! EVERYBODY!! by hobo+sapiens · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stop right here. The rest of this discussion is a mobius strip of really bad jokes using titles of the few Peter Gabriel hits as gags. There are literally more than 50 Shock the Monkey jokes in here.

    Don't say you weren't warned before continuing on in this discussion. Run while you can!

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  5. Re:Musicians seem to have crappy luck by zanaxagoras · · Score: 2, Informative

    BT's not "them" or a "band", it's keyboardist/editing-whiz Brian Transeau plus whomever he collaborates with at any given time. Ironically, one of the bits of stolen material from 2001 was in fact a collaboration with Peter Gabriel.

  6. Human Rights - www.witness.org by cazwax · · Score: 2, Informative

    Peter Gabriel's web presence isn't just about his ( great ) music.

    His Witness project, co-ordinating on-the-spot hand held video recordings of human rights violations, is imaginably a far more serious target.

    http://www.witness.org/

    from their site:

    WITNESS was founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). In 1988, Peter was part of Amnesty Internationalâ(TM)s Human Rights Now! Tour. He was struck by the stories he heard from survivors of human rights abuses and the lack of attention these stories received. Peter had brought along one of the first camcorder models and realized the potential of video as a tool against abuse; he noted that perpetrators of abuses were often brought to justice when photographic or video evidence of abuses existed

    Peter Gabriel is always looking for secure ways to stream video content from troubled spots to his servers that they may be archived and shared.

    If this project was effected by this theft that is far more of a crime than what is being discussed here. even phil collins.