[Ssf] UK Indymedia Servers Seized by the FBI

Amparo amparo.gutierrez at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Oct 8 10:33:17 BST 2004






> http://acp.sindominio.net/article.pl?sid=04/10/07/2219235&mode=thread&threshold=0


i was able to access it from indymedia Madrid

some follow up here as well,

> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/10/07/204217.shtml?tid=153&tid=219





R&A




Danny wrote:

> Press Release
>
>7 October 2004
>
>FBI Seizes IMC Servers in the UK
>
>US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace's office in the US
>ordering them to provide Indymedia's hardware located in London to the
>requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia's web hosting providers
>with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first
>notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia's server in the UK. This
>affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.
>
>Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons
>for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia
>volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they cannot provide Indymedia with any
>information regarding the order." ISPs have received gag orders in similar
>situations which prevent them from updating the concerned parties on what is
>happening.
>
>It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US
>jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.
>
>At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided
>streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a
>handful of miscellanous things.
>
>The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the
>US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an
>attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from
>an ISP in the US and the Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community
>radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia
>takes down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover
>Swiss police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the
>same issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media
>organisations were successfull with their victories for example against
>Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down
>IMCs around the world.
>
>The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay,
>Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all
>France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen,
>Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil,
>UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.
>
>End press release
>
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