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The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by irq »

alejandrojaez wrote: post #69

what about the isp companies they use for connect the datacenter?

Read the article.

> If the companies that give IP Volume access to the rest of the internet were all to decide to stop doing so, the company could no longer operate on the internet. This is called de-peering, and it does occur very sporadically.

> But it is highly controversial, says Guilmette. It flies in the face of the voluntary, decentralised structure of the internet. That is why the largest hub, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, say they won’t do it. A spokesman for the exchange: „We are only a highway, we have nothing to do with the content. You surely can’t expect us to paternalistically review what such a party is hosting?”

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by vimax »

iudqnolq wrote: post #30
fallingknife wrote: post #6

> When the hoster receives an official request from the US to remove copyrighted materials – a DMCA takedown notice – the men do nothing about it, says a person who saw it happen. „DMCAs are just tossed in the wastepaper basket.” Subletters even advertise this ‘service’. „DMCA ignored” reads one advertisement offering space in the „state of the art Ecatel DataCenter, located in Amsterdam”. The Dutch hosting company d…

I don't care morally about the DMCA, but you're a dick if you pull pranks on your child pornography reporting form > For reasons that are unclear, the web form that the two men drew up for reporting gruesome images is designed in such a way that the system can only handle five reports an hour. That is unworkable, according to the hotline.

I might care more once laws start protecting children from those in power more than used by those in power as a ploy to dismantle privacy from ordinary people.

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by kazen44 »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #77
fallingknife wrote: post #6

> When the hoster receives an official request from the US to remove copyrighted materials – a DMCA takedown notice – the men do nothing about it, says a person who saw it happen. „DMCAs are just tossed in the wastepaper basket.” Subletters even advertise this ‘service’. „DMCA ignored” reads one advertisement offering space in the „state of the art Ecatel DataCenter, located in Amsterdam”. The Dutch hosting company d…

>Dutch law states that a hosting company cannot be prosecuted for the actions of those who hire its servers. It is impossible for a hosting company to know the content of every byte on those servers. But hosting companies are required to take action if they are informed of the presence of illegal content. The question is how quickly and how actively they do so. Chucking a DMCA in the trash sounds like it's against Du…

not really, DMCA is not binding by dutch law. If however, they get a request from a dutch/european authority, they would have to respond to that.

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by markdown »

h2odragon wrote: post #33
iandanforth wrote: post #25

Hosting center known to multiple nations as a hotbed for illicit activity that surprisingly hasn't been shut down? Yeah that's a compromised system.

It makes life simpler, when the usual suspects are all in one easy to watch place.

North Holland? More like Hamsterdam.

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

kazen44 wrote: post #83
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Dutch law states that a hosting company cannot be prosecuted for the actions of those who hire its servers. It is impossible for a hosting company to know the content of every byte on those servers. But hosting companies are required to take action if they are informed of the presence of illegal content. The question is how quickly and how actively they do so. Chucking a DMCA in the trash sounds like it's against Du…

not really, DMCA is not binding by dutch law. If however, they get a request from a dutch/european authority, they would have to respond to that.

It might count as being notified of illegal material which they are required by Dutch law to remove.

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by kazen44 »

t0mas88 wrote: post #2

North Holland is quickly rising in datacenter fame... They also have an ongoing conflict between local and higher level government about Microsoft building a huge datacenter and using all their renewable (wind) energy.

Also, the electricty grid around amsterdam is basically filled to the brim, and there has been a ban on expending datacenters in the area because of energy concerns.

In my opinion this is quite a good thing, considering this would ditribute the datacenters more across the netherlands.

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by JeremyBanks »

vimax wrote: post #82
iudqnolq wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care morally about the DMCA, but you're a dick if you pull pranks on your child pornography reporting form > For reasons that are unclear, the web form that the two men drew up for reporting gruesome images is designed in such a way that the system can only handle five reports an hour. That is unworkable, according to the hotline.

I might care more once laws start protecting children from those in power more than used by those in power as a ploy to dismantle privacy from ordinary people.

Have you seen the news about the child predator congressman facing imminent indictment?

Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by [deleted] »

vimax wrote: post #82
iudqnolq wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care morally about the DMCA, but you're a dick if you pull pranks on your child pornography reporting form > For reasons that are unclear, the web form that the two men drew up for reporting gruesome images is designed in such a way that the system can only handle five reports an hour. That is unworkable, according to the hotline.

I might care more once laws start protecting children from those in power more than used by those in power as a ploy to dismantle privacy from ordinary people.

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Re: The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

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Post by layoutIfNeeded »

1996 wrote: post #52
Reason077 wrote: post #4

> "Armin received a bottle of jenever in thanks. „But the customs made me throw it away before the return flight. I couldn’t even take a sip.”" It would have been airport security that made him throw it away, not customs. At that time, the UK was part of the customs union, so there were no customs on a flight between the Netherlands and UK.

> „But the customs made me throw it away before the return flight. I couldn’t even take a sip.”" B.S. Before a flight, a highly paid (given what they do) security theather monkey tried to demand that I forfeit an expensive bottle. Knowing full well how it works in most countries, where the loots are split at the end of the day, I said "watch this", chugged it down, and voluntarily surrendered the now empty bottle. At…

Sounds like a good way to get alcohol poisoning.
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