[AktiviX-discuss] Indymedia servers raided

[NorthLondon John]

 From indymedia.org.uk - the situation isn't clear right now, but it 
seems that Rackspace Hosting, on instructions from the FBI, handed over 
the indymedia hard drives *in the UK*. How the fuck anyone can accept 
that the FBIs jurisidiction extends to another country is beyond me.
Hope IMCistas will keep the lists up to date with what's going on,

John


FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers. Reasons Unknown

FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers. Reasons Unknown
by Sascha Meinrath / NYC IMC
(No verified email address) 07 Oct 2004
  (from UC-IMC / Global IMC / Wire Reports): The FBI took the hard 
drives of Global IMC servers in the USA and the UK. It appears that a 
court order was issued to Rackspace (Indymedia's service provider with 
offices in the US and in London) to physically remove the hard drives 
from Global Indymedia servers (backup servers are now in place). 
Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was 
acted upon and turned over the hard drives, both in the US and the UK. 
The servers hosted numerous local IMCs and the reason for the seizure 
is not known.

  During the Republican Convention, the ISP of the NYC IMC was informed 
that it was the subject of a Secret Service / FBI investigation into an 
article submitted to its Open Newswire identifying delegates at the 
RNC. While the FBI has made it clear to members of the press that the 
investigation is ongoing, there is not necessarily a connection between 
events in NYC and the FBI's seizure of the Rackspace servers.
  The FBI's latest anti-free-press actions began at the beginning of 
October when they visited Indymedia's ISP demanding the removal of 
identifying information from photographs of undercover police officers 
that was posted on the Nantes Indymedia website. When asked what the US 
government was doing requesting the removal of information from a 
French-run website that contained information about Swiss police 
actions, the FBI stated that this was a "courtesy" to the Swiss 
government. The FBI agents stated that no laws had been broken, and no 
crimes had been committed. However, because no identifying information 
was posted on the website in question, it was unclear what actions the 
FBI was requesting.

The article in question is/was posted here:

http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=3910

http://uk.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/298744.html


John

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