The court order was served on the party who owns the server, the network connection and the IP space. There is no legal requirement for notification to the person leasing those items. If the investigation turns up something the owner of blogetry will be notified with a search and arrest warrant at his home / office.
When someone has some kind of proof the server was taken down due to some agency opposing written content on one of the sites, then you can start screaming "first amendment issue". According to Google there was a huge amount of pirated material being posted on blogetry sites. If we're going to make wild guesses about what brought on this event I'd lean towards that. (Especially given the data center suspension notice mentioned abuse as the specific reason for take down).
This is not the "government oversteps boundaries chasing torrent users" story the site owner is doing his best to promote...
The company provided "free" and pay for upgrade blog hosting which attracted numerous DMCA complaints. Unfortunately, the site owner had no content control system in place at all other than waiting for his datacenter to send DCMA notices. Imagine his surprise when after getting quite a few of these that someone decided there was a pattern of willful / negligent violations of copyright and filed a lawsuit. If this is what happened the "victims" all seem to be the last people in the entire World to know you cannot host pirated content on a US located server. If you do, there is a real risk that some agency will come and take your server away to be examined eventually and the owner of said server will face civil as well as criminal actions.
In all honesty that's a best case scenario at this point as the other possibilities involve Federal offenses (child / beast / etc porn, tax evasion, hacking / phishing and so on).
Now we have individuals who were hosted by blogetry complaining because the un-named agency did not leave the server in place and handle things on a site by site basis. What rock have these people been living under for the past four years or so???
Given the fact this sort of thing happens on other free blog hosting sites (the hosting of pirated material, not the sudden transfer of servers from datacenter to Quantico) it's pretty obvious that there is something more serious involved here or that the site owner was allowing a great deal of pirated material to be posted. Those other providers all have some form of internal content monitoring / abuse department as well as treating their clients seriously with hosting on hardware they own, connections they own and IP space they lease direct. Blogetry was using the least expensive, rent a server plan from a hosting provider datacenter. (At that level you can get maybe 6 DCMA notices before suspension if they're "liberal" about that sort of thing).
So far the owner has blamed the datacenter he was leasing servers from (mostly because they refused to disclose information the law enforcement agency told them not to) and now it seems he's blaming the US Government. Why can't he point that finder where it belongs (inwards)?
I'd advise the torrent community and e-freedom folks to keep some distance from this one. There's a huge chunk of data still missing here and regardless, this is not the poster boy for torrent user's rights we want or need.
It's amazing how Fear and political blindness can keep people stupid and in line. Oh wait, Hitler wrote the book on that one, I guess someone thought to re-read it now that people may have forgotten, (history being the most neglected education class, right up there with English). John Ashcroft is obviously "one of the gang" playing under the Bush/Cheney/Haliburton rules.
NXclient and Server are a lot like VNC but faster and support multimedia (ie sound) - I've used it for quite a while in the never expires demo from NoMachine and like it quite a bit for remote dekstop and managing a local linux box (I have 3 PCs at home active and only a 2 port switch). On my LAN I can watch a movie via NX playing on the linux box from my win box. Nice app, nice to see someone take the GPL version and rls a useable free version.
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The court order was served on the party who owns the server, the network connection and the IP space. There is no legal requirement for notification to the person leasing those items. If the investigation turns up something the owner of blogetry will be notified with a search and arrest warrant at his home / office. When someone has some kind of proof the server was taken down due to some agency opposing written content on one of the sites, then you can start screaming "first amendment issue". According to Google there was a huge amount of pirated material being posted on blogetry sites. If we're going to make wild guesses about what brought on this event I'd lean towards that. (Especially given the data center suspension notice mentioned abuse as the specific reason for take down).
This is not the "government oversteps boundaries chasing torrent users" story the site owner is doing his best to promote... The company provided "free" and pay for upgrade blog hosting which attracted numerous DMCA complaints. Unfortunately, the site owner had no content control system in place at all other than waiting for his datacenter to send DCMA notices. Imagine his surprise when after getting quite a few of these that someone decided there was a pattern of willful / negligent violations of copyright and filed a lawsuit. If this is what happened the "victims" all seem to be the last people in the entire World to know you cannot host pirated content on a US located server. If you do, there is a real risk that some agency will come and take your server away to be examined eventually and the owner of said server will face civil as well as criminal actions. In all honesty that's a best case scenario at this point as the other possibilities involve Federal offenses (child / beast / etc porn, tax evasion, hacking / phishing and so on). Now we have individuals who were hosted by blogetry complaining because the un-named agency did not leave the server in place and handle things on a site by site basis. What rock have these people been living under for the past four years or so??? Given the fact this sort of thing happens on other free blog hosting sites (the hosting of pirated material, not the sudden transfer of servers from datacenter to Quantico) it's pretty obvious that there is something more serious involved here or that the site owner was allowing a great deal of pirated material to be posted. Those other providers all have some form of internal content monitoring / abuse department as well as treating their clients seriously with hosting on hardware they own, connections they own and IP space they lease direct. Blogetry was using the least expensive, rent a server plan from a hosting provider datacenter. (At that level you can get maybe 6 DCMA notices before suspension if they're "liberal" about that sort of thing). So far the owner has blamed the datacenter he was leasing servers from (mostly because they refused to disclose information the law enforcement agency told them not to) and now it seems he's blaming the US Government. Why can't he point that finder where it belongs (inwards)? I'd advise the torrent community and e-freedom folks to keep some distance from this one. There's a huge chunk of data still missing here and regardless, this is not the poster boy for torrent user's rights we want or need.
It's amazing how Fear and political blindness can keep people stupid and in line. Oh wait, Hitler wrote the book on that one, I guess someone thought to re-read it now that people may have forgotten, (history being the most neglected education class, right up there with English). John Ashcroft is obviously "one of the gang" playing under the Bush/Cheney/Haliburton rules.
NXclient and Server are a lot like VNC but faster and support multimedia (ie sound) - I've used it for quite a while in the never expires demo from NoMachine and like it quite a bit for remote dekstop and managing a local linux box (I have 3 PCs at home active and only a 2 port switch). On my LAN I can watch a movie via NX playing on the linux box from my win box. Nice app, nice to see someone take the GPL version and rls a useable free version.