[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I just got home today and had an email from Spaceports.com advising me that my site has been shut down because of a formal complaint filed Last week regarding the copy righted material violations on my site. I hope to have this issue resovled soon and with any luck perhaps have the site back up soon.

In the mean time I will be talking to CNC and or Fyron about hosting the site offically.

Thanks

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I have paid for service and this is not a bandwidth issue. The Email states that there was an "offical" complaint filed over the material on my site. I don't know what the out come of this is going to be, but I hope that it will be resolved soon. If not, I will dispute the charge on my visa for their serives and forever bad mouth them.

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Request that the complaint be forwarded to you so that you can address the specific issue. If it is a member of the community then yank his stuff. If it is from an internal audit by the ISP, then look for a new home. If it is some self-appointed ***, acting as a guardian of Paramount’s movies, then it becomes an issue of how much time you want to put into it. Getting a release to use the content would involve less time than running a web server from your house.

There are some web hosts that feel the need to protect themselves from lawsuits by preemptively removing content, and that is just the way things are going to be. But be advised, keeping a web server up has some baggage that goes with it. If your server is used for malicious activity by a third party, you can be held financially responsible as the owner of said server. So unless you want to really keep after it, IIS6 and Apache are not really viable, there are just way too many exploits. Personally, I’d go with something like FreeBSD if I was going to run it from home.

Also, be advised that there are some really absurd views of existing law as pertains to use of web sites by handicapped individuals. We just reworked our site to include alternative text for each image on the site. While the intent was to make publicly funded content accessible, the legal community perverted this and has begun trolling the web fishing for income.