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kungen@feddit.nu 1 year agocoerce police into taking into custody entire servers
Name instances where this has happened, other than on entire websites dedicated to piracy. And overzealous hosting providers who shut down entire servers over a single DMCA (especially when the site doesn’t appear to host any content) should be avoided.
But I agree that it’s his own instance and he should do what he wants with it; that’d be the beauty of federation.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
An instance of lawyers coercing police into taking into custody entire servers? Sure.
infosecurity-magazine.com/…/police-shutter-13000-…
Consider how common these types of seizures are, you can search for more on your own.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Did you miss the part “other than websites dedicated to piracy”? The kingpin was making 150k€/month from his piracy ring, not some guy running a small free message board.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So you want me to provide an example, in a topic talking about piracy, for a comment that was replying in regards to it … that isn’t about piracy!?
Have you looked at how much seizures police and interpol perform in IP? Do you have any reason to expect an exception?
Maybe you’ll find this link more relevant: torrentfreak.com/police-raid-usenet-service-arres…
But there’s so many examples of server seizures for these sort of crimes, it’s almost bordering on the line of misinformation to claim otherwise.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
really coerced them through legal proceedings, damn.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Learn about the legal process, it’s the lawyers who made the case before the court who then gave green light for those search warrants.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you don’t coerce a cop by getting a warrant lol.