Who's hosting the RIAA?

You never know when the RIAA site will go down again.

Denial of service? Hackers? Typical RIAA screw-ups? No one knows. And no one cares.

But that's all changed ; )

Apparently, TST, the RIAA's hosting company, has moved the RIAA's servers to ....

... Verizon's network.

In RIAA ignores court battles, picks Verizon to host site, The Register's Ashlee Vance says Verizon confirmed that, as of July, TST's own site ended up on Verizon's network, as well as the RIAA's.

"We have to provide the service to a customer that asks for it," Vance quotes a Verizon spokeswoman as saying. "TST is purchasing access service from us, and then its their decision what to do with it. It does not change any of our positions on the RIAA case."

And, "Just remember that TST is the same company that changed the name of Microsoft IIS to TST-Secure-OS, hoping to scare would be attackers off with a fierce monicker," the story adds. "It's also the same company that describes itself as a small, disadvantaged business, has set downtime records beyond compare and insisted on using IIS 5.0 for months despite being hacked everyday."

AND ...

"We've come to learn that Northwestern University students refer to a TST-style blunder as a 'Perry Smith.' School lore has it that that a student by that name caught an STD while masturbating. The self-proclaimed celibate had been working on gonorrhea research for the biology department and took some of the work home with him. Anytime someone shoots themselves in the foot, or in this case the pants, the students call it a 'Perry Smith.' Not sure if we believe the story, but it's worth a laugh and applies nicely to the RIAA."