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Indymedia has an article that goes a bit more into detail about the seizure of their Server equipment on October 7th.

Today, October 8, 2004, Indymedia has learned that the request to seize Indymedia servers hosted by a US company in the UK originated from government agencies in Italy and Switzerland. More than 20 Indymedia sites, several internet radio streams and other projects were hosted on the servers. They were taken offline on October 7th after an order was issued to Rackspace, Inc., one of Indymedia’s web hosting providers.

I have to say in a way this is scary. This is about a news Site where pretty much the whole thing was ripped out from under the publisher and no real explaination is given. I guess Redundancy is the key in the future, but how this would be done is anybodies guess.

There is a discussion going on over on Slashdot.