Last Thursday, the US Federal Trade Commission pulled the plug on servers belonging to Pricewert, an ISP alleged to be associated with illegal internet activity. The shut down also targeted 3FN.net, alleged to be an affiliate.
Although CNet leads off its story by saying that “The Internet might just have gotten a little safer”, it is uncertain that simply closing the company’s San Jose data centre will have a measurable sustained impact. According to information on the 3FN website, still visible on cached searched engine sites,
Our company provides web hosting services and collocation in datacenters worldwide.
The company appears to be registered in Belize.
In dealing with illegal content on the internet, targeting a server has typically not been very effective, since a backup image of the server can be restored and operating off-shore in a short period of time.
As we have pondered before on these pages, how does a country assert its laws over internet content?
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