HALOTTO site being forced down!

[nej]

Since when does any type of evil require justification (a leg to stand on)?

Very true, but if (when) everything is cleared, they will need to be held accountable for their actions. Fortunately, the law will be completely on PIPS's side and proper, legal punishment could be dished out.

Then again, Bryan may choose to rise above it and be the bigger man. From what I've seen of his actions he may well do this, but every man has his limits.

[YogiBrood]

If PIPS is investigaged by the authorities and found to be legitimate (as we all hope will be the case), then TG'ers will have no leg to stand on and can be sued for libel and slander.

Even the TG Admin can get into trouble, as a German court found recently:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04..._for_comments/ (I'd suggest the Mods here read this as well!)

I

Yes, thanks and however true that ruling may justify for the nature of that case... it bears the hallmark of a different scenario...... like the contents here will show:

The case started with a forum member of German news site Heise Online, who posted a script in order to disrupt the business practices of Universal Boards. This Munich company has been widely criticised for allegedly distributing premium rate internet dialers. Universal Boards was also accused of buying up domain names that expired, and then using those domains for advertising porn, including a site that was previously owned by a German Volunteer Firemen's Association.
Last year Universal Boards demanded that Heise removed the script, which it did, but the publisher refused to sign a formal obligation. Universal Boards then asked the district court to issue a temporary restraining order. The legal fight continued until last week, when the judge handed down his final ruling.
Legal experts now fear that because of the ruling, lawyers will be seeking damages from moderators who they believe are breaking the law. Heise says it will appeal the ruling.®

[mike]

Whats pathetic is that the hosts are turning off the site based on no grounds. Sad to see that even false complains can get site turned off. Most hosts usually don't do this. Oh well

But getting the site back up once he has a new server should be pretty quick. Usually restoring backups will be easy.

[second mouse]

Think out of the box...
what Bryan is trying to accomplish is bigger than anything ever done before...
his enemies are threatened by it, and are very aggressive because of it.

[mike]

It isn't that big, and lots of things have been done bigger than that. This is no where near taht magnitude.

His enemies aren't threatened by it, but they are those types of people who can't see anyone prosper or be in peace. Even if this program was nothing, if those people could find a way to hurt others, they would.

[ArcturusI]

Is it possible to contact the Host and discover why it is being shut down?

Arcturus

[rich333]

It's no wonder Bryan doesn't share information with members. I wouldn't either.

[guest1]

It's no wonder Bryan doesn't share information with members. I wouldn't either.

Golden words - but many members can't understand that - this event may help them see how the past was.

[mike]

Sharing information has nothing to do with this.

Even if Bryan had not said a word, what happened can easily happen

[leftyken]

Maybe we should return the favor to Talkcrap and cause him a few problems and shut them down. If they can do it to Bryan, we should return the favor.