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by notatoad 5477 days ago
this is not shared hosting. the server taken belonged to instapaper. being located in the same datacenter should not be grounds for seizure.

if you're looking for a metaphor, think about a self-storage facility ([one of these places](http://www.moversandpackers.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/s...). imagine you're renting one of those units, and somebody renting a unit on the other side of the yard is a drug dealer. the FBI comes in, and in the process of seizing the assets of the drug dealer across the yard, they also seize all the stuff in your storage unit. There is no way that is reasonable.
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xuki 5477 days ago
The server belonged to Digital One.

I didn’t own the hardware — I was leasing it from DigitalOne.

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notatoad 5477 days ago
it belonged to instapaper. that's what leased means. if you lease a car or house or server or anything else, it belongs to you for the duration of the lease. and more importantly than the hardware, all the information on the server belonged to instapaper.
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xuki 5477 days ago
No it does not. I once lived in a house and the owner went bankrupt, they (the bank) seized the house immediately. How is that even possible if the house was mine that very moment?

I agree that the information belonged to Instapaper.

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tomjen3 5477 days ago
How does that matter? You also lease the storage locker...
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