p2pnet.net News View:- The two Independent Media Center (IMC) servers seized by the US government last Thursday have been returned, says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

But the servers, which host Indymedia’s Net radio station and more than 20 Indymedia websites, won’t be back online until the EFF has examined them to make sure they’re “secure” and to allow the foundation to, “take steps to preserve evidence for future legal action”.

Yesterday, the EFF said it was repesenting Indymedia in its efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Now that the servers have been returned, the question still remains: who took them, and under what authority?

Rackspace Managed Hosting, the Texas company that managed the servers for Indymedia, wouldn’t comment, citing a gag order.

“All that is known at this point is that the subpoena that resulted in the seizure was issued at the request of a foreign government, most likely with the assistance of the United States Attorney’s Office in San Antonio,” says the EFF in a statement.

“Although initial reports suggested that the FBI had taken the servers, the FBI has now denied any involvement.”

However, “An FBI spokesperson, Joe Parris, confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the FBI issued a subpoena to the provider who hosted the Indymedia servers in the U.K., but that it was ‘on behalf of a third country‘,” said Indymedia.

The EFF says it plans to take legal action to find out what happened to Indymedia’s servers.

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See:-

statement – Indymedia Servers Mysteriously Reappear, But Questions Remain, EFF, October 13, 2004

third country – Some Indymedia sites back, p2pnet, October 13, 2004

Indymedia – Of early Net fantasies (Or, the Empire Strikes Back), p2pnet, October 16, 2004

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