We seize servers, you can’t complain – US gov,
By John Lettice,
The Register,
11th November 2004 12:22 GMT.

In case you haven’t been following the rather bizarre case of the seizure by the US Government of web servers in London, [yes, London, UK], here is
a bit of an update. The adjective “Kafkaesque” is overused, but if anything requires it, it is this episode.

You operate a web site which is hosted by an external company, and an unidentified agency of an unidentified government has the power to take data which you own, but which is situated on hardware hosted by the external company, and according to the US Government, it’s nothing to do with you

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