Indymedia back up

the story is very wierd, government secrecy and all....
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

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http://www.eff.org/

October 13, 2004
Indymedia Servers Mysteriously Reappear, But Questions Remain

San Francisco, CA - Rackspace Managed Hosting, the San Antonio-based
company that manages two Indymedia servers seized by the US government
last Thursday, said yesterday that the servers have been returned and
are now available to go back online. Immediate access to the servers,
which host Indymedia's Internet radio station and more than 20
Indymedia websites, will be delayed so that the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) can ensure that the servers are secure and take steps
to preserve evidence for future legal action.

Now that the servers have been returned, the question still remains:
who took them, and under what authority? Citing a gag order, Rackspace
would not comment on what had happened both in the original seizure of
the servers or their return. 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. Although initial reports
suggested that the FBI had taken the servers, the FBI has now denied
any involvement.

The seizure, which silenced numerous political news websites for
several days, is clearly a violation of the First Amendment. "Secret
orders silencing US media should be beyond the realm of possibility in
a country that believes in freedom of speech," said EFF staff attorney
Kurt Opsahl. "EFF was founded with the Steve Jackson Games case
fourteen years ago, and at that time we established that seizing entire
servers because of a claim about some pieces of information on them is
blatantly illegal and improper. It appears the government forgot this
basic rule, and we will need to remind them."

EFF will take legal action to find out what really happened to
Indymedia's servers and ensure that Internet media are protected from
egregious First Amendment violations like this in the future.