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07-21-2003, 02:43 PM

I was actually the target of a threatening letter that incorrectly identified some stuff I was hosting. My server was shut down without any notification whatsoever; it was only after I called the hosting company that I found out that it was because I had DeCSS (that's De-Cascading Style Sheets) on a page that <b>very explicitly said</b> "this cannot be used for making illegal copies of DVDs". I wrote an angry letter to the hosting company; they wrote a very very <b>very</b> angry letter to the MPAA's attorney, and my server was restored (total downtime: about four hours). But it's still a big bag of suck.

I'm looking for my source right now, and I'll post it when I find it. But it was just today when I read it.

07-21-2003, 02:43 PM	#7
dave Guest Posts: n/a	I was actually the target of a threatening letter that incorrectly identified some stuff I was hosting. My server was shut down without any notification whatsoever; it was only after I called the hosting company that I found out that it was because I had DeCSS (that's De-Cascading Style Sheets) on a page that <b>very explicitly said</b> "this cannot be used for making illegal copies of DVDs". I wrote an angry letter to the hosting company; they wrote a very very <b>very</b> angry letter to the MPAA's attorney, and my server was restored (total downtime: about four hours). But it's still a big bag of suck. I'm looking for my source right now, and I'll post it when I find it. But it was just today when I read it.