An appeals court decided that administrators are responsible for all the content on their site when it comes to copyrighted content. The usual MPAA/RIAA douchebaggery, but this one is fairly serious: there's no need for a notice-takedown procedure, you can just go ahead and confiscate all the servers and sue the admins for damage - and in this particular case, since the admins didn't even know about how much copyrighted content was moving through their system (and they even couldn't have), the damages were calculated according to RIAA mathematics. As this is a decision which was upheld from a lower court, it is likely to become a legal precedent for similar cases, which opens doors for further douchebaggery.
It's too much of a legal risk to host anything with user-generated content in Finland right now, especially since I don't have the time to be constantly monitoring jspwiki.org for all the content that gets uploaded there. (There's no knowledge yet how this will impact the local startup scene, but I'm pretty sure the impact won't be beneficiary.) jspwiki.org gets about 5000 visitors/day. So it's not particularly high traffic. It's running on a five-year-old 8-core Xeon with 4 gigs of memory (yes, it's a bit overspecced when it comes to CPU but I got it second hand). However, there are four other wikis on the same machine (doc.jspwiki.org/2.2, doc.jspwiki.org/2.4, blog.jspwiki.org and sandbox.jspwiki.org). A simple VM with about a gig of memory should be quite sufficient. Also, I could transfer jspwiki.org to ASF while we're at it, as long as someone just tells me what to do :-) /Janne On 11 Jul 2012, at 09:26, Florian Holeczek wrote: > Hi Janne, > > that's sad! Just curious, what kind of decision was that? In Germany, we > sometimes have quite weird court decisions, too, but they tend to get better > gradually. > > How much load is on the machine? Can you give some details on its current > hardware resources (CPU and RAM) and the network traffic? > I think one option would be moving to a VM in the Apache infrastructure. > > Regards > Florian > > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Von: "Janne Jalkanen" <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com> > An: jspwiki-dev@incubator.apache.org > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 13:44:27 > Betreff: New host for jspwiki.org? > > Folks, > > due to some recent decisions by Finnish courts I no longer dare to host the > www.jspwiki.org wiki in Finland and continue as the administrator. Anybody > want to offer server space and take over the admin duties? Needs Tomcat and a > few tens of megs of space. > > /Janne
