Indymedia hard disks seized
`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. [..]
It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.’
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