A Web-hosting firm says it was ordered by a law enforcement agency to shut down Blogetry.com, a free platform used by more than 70,000 bloggers, but a company spokesman won’t say why or who is responsible for the termination of service. CNET reported that BurstNet, the hosting company, informed Blogetery’s operator that it was required to end its service at the request of law enforcement, but it wouldn’t say which agency. No reason was given for the shutdown, but BurstNet did cite “a history of abuse” on many blogs.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Defining Cloud Valuations, with NCC International Blogs: Posted Some Exhibit Hall Setup Shots on Flickr News: The Challenges of International Business, with Usman Arshad of HostDime News: Hartland Ross on Using Marketing Best Practices to Increase Profits and Prospects News: The Evolution of Hosting – Where We Are Going, with Equinix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports published over the weekend, a website providing free WordPress blogs was shut down overnight by its hosting provider BurstNet ( www.burst.net ) last week at the request of US authorities, under circumstances that remain mysterious more than a week later. On Friday, July 16, the file sharing information site TorrentFreak reported on the takedown , saying that “a history of abuse” was the reason cited for the site’s removal

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Los Angeles – After successfully getting a Swedish ISP to sever ties with file-sharing tracker service OpenBitTorrent, international record label trade group IFPI is now attempting to duplicate the tactic with the service’s new Web host in Spain, TorrentFreak reported. The IFPI notes that OpenBitTorrent does not itself host any copyright protected works, but enables infringement through links to material hosted elsewhere

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Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Q&A: HP’s Vickie Farrell on Business Intelligence News: Police Seize 50 Servers in Hungarian Online Anti-Piracy Raid News: Rackspace Places 18th in Financial Times UK Best Workplaces News: Q&A: Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer on Net Neutrality News: Gaikai Inks Cloud-based Streaming Agreement with Game Developer EA (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Police in Budapest, Hungary, have seized 50 computer servers in several server hotels and at a technical college in an action against various online piracy operations, according to reports from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry ( www.ifpi.org ). According to the IFPI, which represents the recording industry across 66 countries worldwide, the Budapest Police Department carried out raids on June 16 partly in response to complaints by the Hungarian Copyright Alliance and by the local film industry.  Police report that 500 terabytes of content was found on the servers including data allegedly used to illegally distribute thousands of copyrighted works via torrent sites both locally and internationally. According to peer to peer news site TorrentFreak ( www.torrentfreak.com ), many of Hungary’s trackers shut down , including, most significantly, 900,000-peer tracker “ncore.” It also reports that Hungarian authorities, Under pressure from the US, have carried at least two notable raids against torrent sites, once in 2007, and again in 2009

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Stockholm, Sweden – File-sharing hub The Pirate Bay is back online Tuesday with an unusual new hosting provider — Sweden’s Pirate Party, TorrentFreak reported. The site was offline on Monday, after U.S

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