small (tiny) comment (Re: Has the plug website been down?)
Derek Trotter
expat.arizonan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 13:10:36 MST 2012
On 11/21/2012 10:51 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> Sounds like some people in black suits came in with a warrant and said
> "gimme servers". Wouldn't be the first time I've seen that shared
> hosting boxes get their drives yanked first for questions later, and
> down goes the one+thousands other customers on a server they want.
>
> Megaupload was a good example of this, and not at all uncommon that
> they'd clear a data center if they didn't know specifically know where
> to find what they wanted.
I seem to recall something similar happened when cops in Europe went
after the Pirate Bay a few years ago.
If I ran a company and this happened, I would put a note up on the
company's site apologizing for the interruption in service and then tell
what happened.
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