Usmanov-watch: A pyrrhic victory.
Alisher Usmanov and his shower of lackeying legal cunts, Schillings, have finally pulled off a very pyrrhic victory. Despite comprehensively failing to remove Craig Murray's original blog post about Usmanov, which is still around if you know where to look, they've managed to spook Tim Ireland's webhost so much that they've pulled the plug on Tim and Clive's cluster of sites, also including Bob Piper, Boris Johnson and Craig Murray's blogs.
My advice to anyone thinking of starting a blog is to get it hosted with a US-based company. Not only are their rates usually remarkably cheaper than anything you'll be offered over here, but legal firms find it difficult to get anything removed, thanks to the good old first amendment. Won't stop them threatening you personally of course, but your webhosts themselves couldn't care less, as neither time have I been threatened has Dreamhost even bothered to contact me.
Knowing Tim, not to mention Craig and the others, Schillings really have picked the wrong people to start a fight with.
My advice to anyone thinking of starting a blog is to get it hosted with a US-based company. Not only are their rates usually remarkably cheaper than anything you'll be offered over here, but legal firms find it difficult to get anything removed, thanks to the good old first amendment. Won't stop them threatening you personally of course, but your webhosts themselves couldn't care less, as neither time have I been threatened has Dreamhost even bothered to contact me.
Knowing Tim, not to mention Craig and the others, Schillings really have picked the wrong people to start a fight with.
Labels: Alisher Usmanov, legal threats, Schillings, Tim Ireland
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Fucking shits.
Power to Tim et al. Methinks he'll have the last laugh. He usually does.
Posted by
Aaron Murin-Heath |
Friday, September 21, 2007 12:46:00 am
I have a bad feeling. My bad feeling is that Craig et al registered their domain names via the British outfit that hosted their sites.
Now, when they get their new host, the domain register will have to change the address that the domain points to. If the domain registrar and the host are one and the same, often they don't like doing that.
They will do it in the end, but it could take several days
Posted by
Ken |
Friday, September 21, 2007 7:31:00 am
Power to Tim et al. Methinks he'll have the last laugh. He usually does -
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:50:00 am
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