Dutch isp hostte hundreds of MegaUpload-servers – update

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MegaUpload had with the Dutch isp LeaseWeb but less than 690 servers in use. Of these, there were 60 purchased; 630 were hired. Thursday was the popular download site, offline, on suspicion of copyright infringement.

From the indictment of the U.s. department of Justice against MegaUpload shows that the site 630 servers from LeaseWeb rented. In addition, in October a further 60 servers bought at the same hoster to be found. Between march 2007 and July 2010, paid MegaUpload the Dutch hosting provider an amount of nine million dollars.

With another provider had the download site, ‘over a thousand’ servers in use, and in a third 36 pieces. Or that all the servers are, or at any other locations more were hosted, is unclear.

LeaseWeb is regularly in the news on police actions: as were ddos attacks against MasterCard from LeaseWeb servers running, and was also the Bredolab botnet in the provider hosted. In the past there were also a lot of torrentsites to be found, including The Pirate Bay. On the other hand, it was LeaseWeb, the first Dutch isp, which uploads checked on child abuse.

The ceo of MegaUpload, ” Kim Dotcom, LeaseWeb, according to the U.S. requested a clause in the contract between MegaUpload and LeaseWeb to delete. That clause meant that the provider contract could break when the acceptable use policy was violated. Or LeaseWeb, the clause has actually been removed, is unclear.

Thursday was MegaUpload taken offline. Also We worked there. It is unknown when the provider was informed and what is going on with the servers, it will happen that the company under his wing. Also other sites under the same company as MegaUpload fell, such as MegaVideo and MegaPorn, are offline.

Alex de Joode, security officer at LeaseWeb, confirms that there servers are offline at LeaseWeb and that the numbers which the FBI calls “approximate” match. “We have sixty servers that were owned by MegaUpload off at the expense of the FIOD,” says De Joode.

What is going on with the servers happens, is still unclear. “That’s up to the FBI,” says De Joode. The servers that MegaUpload leased, are still. That were only MegaUpload. The security officer says never seen evidence to have had that MegaUpload the fair use policy of the company workers. “We have never had a notice-and-takedown had,” he says.

The U.s. department of Justice accuses MegaUpload of its copyright infringement to have been committed, and a lot of have earned. The company behind MegaUpload would be 175 million dollars have earned from ads and premium subscriptions. The copyright holders would be more than $ 500 million have suffered damage. The Dutchman, who Thursday at the action of the FBI was arrested, was the lead programmer of the site. He had an interest of 2.5 per cent in the company.

According to the FBI has MegaUpload the digital millennium copyright act violation. That law protects content providers against liability for copyright infringement of their users, as long as they respond to notice-and-takedown-requests. According to the FBI, did MegaUpload not: when such a request came, it was only one copy of a file taken offline, instead of all the identical copies of that file. In addition, uploaded employees of MegaUpload – including the Dutch programmer – also illegal content, the American ministry.

Update, 11:17: quote Alex de Joode, cso at LeaseWeb, added.