On 2017-02-14 08:27, Jared Mauch wrote: > So risk avoidance on the part of the 100k other sites hosted by CF is now a > conspiracy? > > I'm surprised it took this many years for something like this to happen. > Wonder which LE in which country... > > Either way seems nothing too suspicious is going on here. > > Jared Mauch
Looks like it was a court order issued recently in Spain. "Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer yesterday confirmed to Ars that the company is complying with a court order issued recently in Spain." TPB was not actually the target, it was collateral. "But The Pirate Bay was not the subject of the court order, Schaeffer also confirmed." >From - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/a-court-order-blocked-pirate-sites-that-werent-supposed-to-be-blocked/ -- Sadiq Saif https://sadiqsaif.ca