FBI Raids 2 Data Centers in Texas, Confiscate Loads of Equipment

**Fletch XXX** · 04-10-2009, 04:10 AM

terrible article, they should have more quotes from hosting related businesses not the "fight the donate to me" guy

maybe a lawyer quote lol

**Sam Granger** · 04-10-2009, 04:14 AM

Thats pretty damn fucked up!

**Useless Warrior** · 04-10-2009, 04:24 AM

Tech giants AT&T and Verizon sparked the raids, complaining that some of their customers were delinquent on bills.

Are the FBI going to be in the business of repo-ing cars next?

**Paul Markham** · 04-10-2009, 04:35 AM

Originally posted by Useless Warrior

Are the FBI going to be in the business of repo-ing cars next?

Amazing how much power these companies have and they can't use it positively.

**gornyhuy** · 04-10-2009, 04:39 AM

Fuck... that is one thing I was NOT afraid of happening to my business.... until now.

Great.

**PurrrsianPussyKat** · 04-10-2009, 04:41 AM

Make sure your host doesn't host tubes kids...

Should adult be worried? Possibly. Brandon speculated that if the federal government should decide to raid a server farm that hosts an offending tube site, a lot of other harmless adult sites might get swept up in a similar way.

**The Seduction of Art** · 04-10-2009, 04:50 AM

Originally posted by Useless Warrior

Are the FBI going to be in the business of repo-ing cars next?

Hey kid! Wanna be a G-Man?

**Quagmire** · 04-10-2009, 05:11 AM

that is just fantastic. bringing the FBI in to collect your debts.

Can anyone sign up for that program or do you have to be a huge corporation for that perk?

**nation-x** · 04-10-2009, 05:15 AM

Someone started this thread a couple of days ago. The people who are behind the hosting companies are involved in multiple VoIP scams using falsified documents and fraudulent activities to get the contracts with ATT, Verizon and a few other carriers to the tune of $4-5 million. The owner (Faulkner is his name) also runs a bunch of pirate sites serving warez.

**Wizzo** · 04-10-2009, 05:19 AM

Originally posted by Fletch XXX

terrible article, they should have more quotes from hosting related businesses not the "fight the donate to me" guy

maybe a lawyer quote lol

Especially since his quote is about the FTC and not the FBI...

**potter** · 04-10-2009, 05:23 AM

Originally posted by nation-x

Someone started this thread a couple of days ago. The people who are behind the hosting companies are involved in multiple VoIP scams using falsified documents and fraudulent activities to get the contracts with ATT, Verizon and a few other carriers to the tune of $4-5 million. The owner (Faulkner is his name) also runs a bunch of pirate sites serving warez.

/thread

Basically, if the FBI is raiding shit. You only need to worry if you're doing something illegal.

**rowan** · 04-10-2009, 05:27 AM

Originally posted by potter

/thread

Basically, if the FBI is raiding shit. You only need to worry if you're doing something illegal.

Ok, that takes care of your personal freedom...

What about the severe disruption to your 100% legal business due to them physically removing equipment?...

**Pleasurepays** · 04-10-2009, 05:57 AM

Originally posted by Paul Markham

FBI Raids 2 Data Centers in Texas, Confiscate Loads of Equipment

Comments please.

Looks a bit heavy by the FBI.

more shitty, one sided and biased writing from the industries shittiest news source.

life is unfair. if someone is using your servers to do illegal shit with... then they become evidence and certainly shouldn't be accessed or modified.

one would think it would be obvious that they took certain servers for a reason, being that they only took a fraction of the servers in the datacenter.

**HerPimp** · 04-10-2009, 06:02 AM

Looks like we people in the U.S. need to find a real free country to host their sites.

**Dirty Dane** · 04-10-2009, 06:09 AM

Originally posted by rowan

Ok, that takes care of your personal freedom...

What about the severe disruption to your 100% legal business due to them physically removing equipment?...

The question is if the data center ignored/knew about it - or not. If the ones you're doing legal business with, are doing illegal business themself and hurt you, its time to move on. And maybe sue them.

**CamTraffic** · 04-10-2009, 06:15 AM

Originally posted by nation-x

Someone started this thread a couple of days ago. The people who are behind the hosting companies are involved in multiple VoIP scams using falsified documents and fraudulent activities to get the contracts with ATT, Verizon and a few other carriers to the tune of $4-5 million. The owner (Faulkner is his name) also runs a bunch of pirate sites serving warez.

well that will explain WHY this happened then

**Iron Fist** · 04-10-2009, 06:31 AM

Originally posted by Pleasurepays

one would think it would be obvious that they took certain servers for a reason, being that they only took a fraction of the servers in the datacenter.

Yeah well I wonder if any of those were shared servers.... 220 servers is a SHITLOAD of equipment.

**Paul Markham** · 04-10-2009, 07:03 AM

Originally posted by sharphead

Yeah well I wonder if any of those were shared servers.... 220 servers is a SHITLOAD of equipment.

And not a number they decided to take on the day, this would of needed some vans and they would of had to plan it before hand.

So the question is who was on the list, anyone know of any sites going down?

Could of been sites that were scamming.