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I do volunteer work at a youth organization in the Netherlands. Recently smoking has become a lot more popular. Nearly all kids between 18 and 25 smoke here. There is also a very clear group effect. People start smoking because others are doing it.

Thanks, I'll give them a call tomorrow. The website only lists a dutch phone number, which is convenient, I'm dutch as well.

Not yet. I also thought about reaching out to the embassy, but have not had the time for it yet.

That might help.

My site has nothing to do with football though. And Allot seems to be running the DNS server that your ISP uses so they are directly responsible for the block.

I have my own dedicated IP range. And they specifically blocked my domain name, not the addresses. I don't know what the reason is. I have been trying to find out since the start of this year.

Creator of pixeldrain here. Italy has been doing this for a very long time. They never notified me of any such material being present on my site. I have a lot of measures in place to prevent the spread of CSAM. I have sent dozens of mails to Polizia Postale and even tried calling them a few times, but they never respond. My mails go unanswered and they just hang up the phone.

Creator of pixeldrain here. I have no idea why my site is blocked in Spain, but it's a long running issue.

I actually never discovered who was responsible for the blockade, until I read this comment. I'm going to look into Allot and send them an email.

EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.

It is technically possible, and there is a proposal to standardize it, but it has been in draft state for nearly 10 years https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

Neat, my personal site pixeldrain.com is in there

The "refuses ro remove it" part is not even necessary. I run a large cloud storage site, and like all cloud storage it sees some abuse. I have set up a few processes to detect and remove child abuse content.

At some point the Police in Italy found some abusive content on my site. They did not inform me, they did not report the files. Instead they just blocked the whole site with a large pedophilia warning.

I have been trying to get in contact with the Italian police for months, but there is no working email address on any of the sites, and the people on the phone only speak Italian. It's a pretty hopeless situation.

Energy consumption is directly correlated to heat production. The capacity of a datacenter is basically its capacity to keep servers cool. That's why datacenter capacity is measured in watts.

I should not have posted this hours before new year's eve

Who says the US isn't controlling the narrative on US social media?

My monthly Hetzner bill is around €15000. I have been a customer at Hetzner for nearly 10 years. In the beginning I served traffic directly from Hetzner servers, but 4 years ago I switched to a caching system hosted at a different provider. Since then I have not received any copyright claims through Hetzner.

I can't think of a reason to cancel my account except that they want to free up resources for their own storage service. I am using a lot of disks and bandwidth. They might have been looking for a reason to kick me out and the launch of their own storage service could have been the final straw.

Keep in mind that the account cancellation mail arrived almost exactly one week before this announcement. They are keeping their lips tight about the reason of my account cancellation so I can only speculate.

> perharps if you moved all servers to 10G and payed for the egress over 20Tb they would reconsider your account?

I considered that and even suggested it to them, but they ignore all my remarks and keep repeating that I have two months to leave.

I have not used Hetzner to serve user facing traffic for many years. Users never connect directly to the storage servers, it's all going through custom caching nodes hosted by a different provider. That shields the hetzner servers from all abuse and also reduces traffic by about 75%. There is no risk for hetzner here.

I concede that my service has been abused a lot. I am working very hard to clean up my act. I have been implementing better content moderation, content scanning and streamlining my dmca handling process. If hetzner has a problem with any of that they should have just contacted me instead of pulling the plug like this. Very unreliable company.

I'm currently on vacation with bad cell reception. I tried calling but it didn't come through. Will try again when I get back.

Hetzner does not host user facing servers for me. It's all behind caching nodes which are hosted by a different company. Hetzner would not know what is hosted on pixeldrain.

I will, and when it's done it will definitely appear on this forum. But in the meantime I have to focus on cleaning this mess up.

Each server has a 1 Gbps connection. Some servers are storing more than average, some have 160 TB. That's already 2 weeks at full line rate. But I also need to keep serving user traffic. I can't take the site offline for a month for a data migration, that would completely kill my business.

So, I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this announcement has extremely suspicious timing.

You see, I host a cloud storage service on Hetzner. I have 12 PETABYTES of user data stored there. The data is spread over 120 of their SX type storage servers. Last week Hetzner sent me an email saying they were closing my account for an unknown reason. I have repeatedly been asking about the reason of this sudden closure, but they won't tell me. Meanwhile I have a huge problem, because I need to move 12 PB to a different hosting provider, and they only gave me until the end of November. That's an almost impossible deadline for setting up such a large storage cluster. Especially considering that Hetzner's 1 Gbps port speed makes it impossible to transfer the data in less than three weeks.

Don't trust Hetzner, guys. They screwed me over real bad here, and it seems like they will be taking the hardware that I have been renting there for 10 years for themselves now. This is incredibly scummy behaviour.

Not sure, it's been a long time since I played. But I don't think you could completely lose it.

I just used the cube as a backpack for extra inventory space, haha

It seems the Pile is currently inaccessible. I would be willing to mirror it on Pixeldrain if I can get my hands on it.

The hardest part for me to accept is that there are so many people who just don't care. Not about the disasters, the climate refugees, the death toll, the extinction of thousands of species, respiratory diseases, etc.

How can people just accept all that as a fact of life when it's all man-made horrors?

We're doomed. News like this drains my motivation to do anything at all, because it might all be for nothing anyway.

Oh, I actually fixed that issue a few months ago. I just haven't updated the site yet.

Piracy is a bit of a problem on pixeldrain, but I am fighting it. I have automated DMCA processing and am banning infringing users.

I'm not able to find any court cases. I'm not sure where to look either though.