{"article":{"id":117527,"heading":"FBI orders UK ISP to hand over IMC Server","author":"ze","created":"2004-10-09 14:52:53","modified":"2004-10-12 19:13:37","last_modified":"Wed, 13 Oct 2004 02:13:37","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>FBI orders UK ISP to hand over IMC Server  <br><br> Rackspace, a London ISP which hosts UK Indymedia's server received a  <br>  <br> federal order earlier today to turn over all hardware hosting Indymedia  <br>  <br> websites to the FBI. The server hosted UK Indymedia as well as numerous  <br>  <br> local IMCs including Belgium and African imcs, Palestine, UK, Germany,  <br>  <br> and Brasil, Italy, Uruguay, Poland, Belgrade, Portugal, and more. As of  <br>  <br> yet the reasons behind the demand are unknown, but it is suspected that  <br>  <br> it has to do with an FBI request to remove a post on the Nantes IMC that  <br>  <br> had a photo of undercover Swiss police. The FBI claimed there were  <br>  <br> threats and personal information contained within the post, a charge  <br>  <br> that was untrue. The undercover police photographed on the page were  <br>  <br> photographing protesters. Rackspace is a United States based company,  <br>  <br> however they also provide colocation facilities in the UK, where these  <br>  <br> servers were located. Rackspace is currently building another server to  <br>  <br> replace the one lost which will be online shortly, and have apologized  <br>  <br> for the abruptness of the turnover, explaining that they are \"required  <br>  <br> to comply with all federal orders of this nature\".  <br><br> More on this story as it develops<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"FBI orders UK ISP to hand over IMC Server ","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/10\/117527.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":117547,"heading":"What the hell is this?","article":"Next they will be closing down la.indymedia.org, just you watch.","author":"Ted","parent_id":117527,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-10-09 19:30:04","modified":"2004-10-09 19:30:04","fileurl":""}]}