Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery
Found on CNet News on Saturday, 17 July 2010
Blogetery.com, a little-known WordPress platform used by more than 70,000 blogs, was shut down by its Web hosting company mroe than a week ago and nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible.
If this was a copyright issue, BurstNet would likely have to deal with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor.
In an interview on Sunday evening, a BurstNet spokesman declined to identify the law enforcement agency that ordered Blogetery shut down or provide the reason, but did say that it had nothing to do with copyright violations.
If there is a gag order involved with prohibits BurstNet from talking about what happened, then it's often related to national security. How 73,000 blogs can be a thread however is hard to understand. If Blogetery has backups, it would be a sweet move to restart the service outside US jurisdiction.