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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by herbst on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:03AM (#12142837)
true. but this still does not explain on which juristic base the US got involved. Its not like providing such a platform would be particulary illegal in europe.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by bitJericho on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:33AM (#12142937)
The US does what the US wants. Where have you guys been?
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by herbst on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:46AM (#12142980)
I now learned that he hosted in the U.S. so it's pretty much his own fault really. I mean in their right mind would do that with anything remotely sensible?
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by sbarre on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:03AM (#12143039)
He didn't actually host in the US, his DNS servers were in the US for a period of time..

His physical servers were actually hosted in Montreal (which might as well be in the US I suppose)..

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