Re: nettime The probable end of Sealand

2006-06-29 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
The idea of Sealand was to be a state of its own, to have an own jurisdiction, own laws. A data heaven implies own internet laws and when not even the servers are in Sealand... Nice case? H. syk0 wrote: What is your axe to grind with these people? An airconditioner failed and a generator

Re: nettime The probable end of Sealand

2006-06-27 Thread syk0
What is your axe to grind with these people? An airconditioner failed and a generator fire started. I know people who have servers there and they are not in London. On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Patrice Riemens wrote: Sealand, a former gun platform on the North Sea just of the West coast of England,

nettime The probable end of Sealand

2006-06-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
Sealand, a former gun platform on the North Sea just of the West coast of England, featured prominently in fantasies about independent micro-states (complete with passports and postage stamps). Somewhere in the mid-nineties there was an attempt to recycle it as 'data haven', Cryptonomicon