October 08, 2004 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month

The Buzzard's Beak

The Register's moniker has always amused me. A few hours ago it picked up the RIPA warrent served on Rackspace UK, resulting in the seizure of two 1U servers from RM's colo facility in London (IXEurope).

link.

Note that seizing the spindles need not have resulted in a denial-of-service attack on the IndyMedia network. Something to watch, for jurisdictional reasons, in addition to the usual what-new-joke-has-Ashcroft-wrot reasons.

Because the target is IndyMedia, this is getting more coverage on the left-hand-side-of-the-blogo-dial than the Elashi brothers when they were targeted.

Posted by EBW at October 8, 2004 09:24 PM | TrackBack
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