Saturday, July 17, 2010

I'm not sure what to think about this.

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73,000 Wordpress blogs shut down by U.S. Government.  Go read it, and chase the link at the bottom to "Torrent Freak."  Only if you want to, of course.

3 comments:

  1. I'm not sure either. According to 'Torrent Freak' the quote was 'at the request' of the government, and they acknowledged that there had been a lot of sharing of copyrighted materials. I still don't understand shutting down the whole server, however.
    I think not enough info.

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  2. I'd like to see more info, too, but this is disturbing to say the least. 73,000 blogs gone in one fell swoop -- maybe we should be saving our data! I don't want you guys just to vanish into shattered cyberspace someday!

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  3. Heh. First thing I did when I read this was make sure mine was still up!

    Then I went to every WP-hosted site in my personal blogroll to see if any "friends" were among the 73K blogs. Nope. No one unaccounted for.

    Now I'm running a backup for mine - just in case.

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