[AktiviX-discuss] Re: [freedomlab] Indymedia servers raided

[ana]

hi all,

due to FBI stealing indymedia servers from London, the ESF stream went down.
It is now back up on radio.indymedia.org:8000/rampART.m3u

please pass this on and fix any incorrect URLs you find or know about.

the radio will stream throughout the ESF. contributions both live and
recorded are most welcome. get involved.

As for more info... well the situation is quite messy since lots of good 
things were hosted on that server: lots of indymedias (uk among them), 
some people's personal email addresses, and ALL of the existing BLAG (a 
gnu/linux distro born in brixton) documentation and message boards. Nice 
job.

As for the globalisation issue, apparently it was because
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298763.html
pictures of undercover swiss police [in italy?], posted on a french 
indymedia site (nantes), hosted on a server in the UK. Thanks to some 
bilateral agreement the USA FBI can seize the hard drive/s.

It doesn't take too much navigation in the indy sites to get a better 
picture anyway...

ana


NorthLondon John wrote:

> 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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