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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Michael Hinman said:
I'm in Grenada. Does that make my company multinational, too? :D
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If it isn't a major multinational corporation, perhaps it is a general multinational corporation and therefore outranks mere majors? We could probably go at least three pages on whether multinational applied when only two countries are involved. :D
 
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Indysolo said:
Did someone say Cash?

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I wonder if he calls an erection a Cash-card
 
If I was donating my time and money to maintain the website, I certainly wouldn't want to have the server on site. Isn't that why there are tonnes of web hosting companies around the world?

TZ costs me about $100 a month, including full Adobe & Office licenses and the email and web servers. Plus I get 24x7 customer support for free....
 
TREKZONE.org said:
If I was donating my time and money to maintain the website, I certainly wouldn't want to have the server on site. Isn't that why there are tonnes of web hosting companies around the world?

TZ costs me about $100 a month, including full Adobe & Office licenses and the email and web servers. Plus I get 24x7 customer support for free....
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To be fair, I assume he has it colocated with a (very) cheap colocation provider, so the servers aren't on site. In Axanar's situation I would've probably gone with wordpress.com or something. Or used AWS if I wanted to run the OS myself. Depends on the bandwidth they're using; if they're serving Prelude, it might actually be the only way they can afford the bandwidth (anyone who charges by the byte is going to get expensive quickly, including the Amazons of the world. Not sure what wordpress.com charges).
 
Ion said:
To be fair, I assume he has it colocated with a (very) cheap colocation provider, so the servers aren't on site. In Axanar's situation I would've probably gone with wordpress.com or something. Or used AWS if I wanted to run the OS myself. Depends on the bandwidth they're using; if they're serving Prelude, it might actually be the only way they can afford the bandwidth (anyone who charges by the byte is going to get expensive quickly, including the Amazons of the world. Not sure what wordpress.com charges).
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To be fair I'm not sure what he means by 'I moved all of the hardware to a new location.' I do highly doubt he owns all that gear, but who knows.

The media serving does get chunky, but that's why I use YouTube and Vimeo.
 
TREKZONE.org said:
To be fair I'm not sure what he means by 'I moved all of the hardware to a new location.' I do highly doubt he owns all that gear, but who knows.
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It's not that expensive.

For something Axanar's size, "all the gear" probably equates to one server, or maybe two. At the rate he quoted, he's probably got one or two rack units of space in an unsecured cabinet, occupied by a single VMware server that everything is running on (a rack unit is 1.75" tall). Could vary a bit, but that's a good rate for a colocated server with a decent amount of bandwidth.

For reference, a quick google search turns up 1U of space with power and 20 megabits of unmetered bandwidth for $89.00/month (ref: http://www.rackalley.com/colocation/1u-colocation-los-angeles/). And that's just what I found in a literal five second search. For decent quality with half a cabinet of secure space and ten or twenty megs of dedicated bandwidth that can burst much higher, I'd expect to pay somewhere between $500 and $1000.

The server probably wouldn't have run him more than a couple thousand for a decent one.

This is, of course, all speculation on my part, just based on what I know of the industry. I haven't actually colocated anything that small in quite some time, so I could be slightly off there. I use Amazon for my personal stuff these days because it's more cost effective for what I do with it. In my professional life, we tend to buy colocation space by the square foot and power by the kilowatt. :)
 
TREKZONE.org said:
But why does Axanar need a colocated server? Surely the traffic isn't so much that a webhost couldn't handle it?

GoDaddy have unlimited bandwidth plans...
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There are potentially lots of reasons, especially if they're doing anything other than bog-standard WordPress. Probably to do with Ares Digital; once you get into custom applications, you're typically looking at something more extensive than a managed host if you want it to be cost effective. Not always, but typically.

[edit: I haven't actually looked at Ares Digital at all, so I have no idea what they've done there. Could be WordPress with some commerce plugin for all I know.]

Interestingly, it looks like GoDaddy is handling their email for them, for anyone who cares. I know there was some speculation on that earlier.
 
If he's doing it himself he might just like having it on hand and more complicated than just using something like go daddy. I can get behind that just like if they had a maker up artist donating time and effort that make up artist might go nuts with extra make up just for the fun of their craft. Once again if he just said it's a labor of love I do it for kicks and just expect it to have the stability of AAA home run server..... But he has to be a jerk about it.
 
ThankYouGeneR said:
I definitely sympathize with these sentiments. Yup. I do.

On the other hand courts can be (and I'm quoting another poster whom I'm not recalling) "tricksey hobbitses". There can be judges who may or may not harbor a favoritism or leaning one way or the other. Or/and juries who, due to very effective maneuverings of a prosecutor/plaintiff and defendant lawyering, can be prevented from hearing some real and pertinent facts that would otherwise impact their for or against decisions.

Court cases are rarely-to-never done deals even with everyone involved KNOWING he or she did or did not 'do it'. Including the judge, jury, prosecutor/plaintiff attorney, defendant attorney, police, public, and person(s) involved.

Juries are required to only judge what has been allowed as admissible to hear, and at times can be even swayed by a prosecutor/plaintiff attorney or defendant attorney who has a manner of presenting interpretations of what a judge has ruled allowed information, sometimes even a charismatic presentation ability that emotionally sways them.

They can be "tricksey", these trials. The adage "Be careful what you wish for" is strongly felt in me when I think about this case going to trial. The actual outcome might not turn out to be what I'd been wanting and totally believing it would and should be.
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Or, to quote Dr McCoy from The Omega Glory, "I've found that evil often defeats good unless good is very, very careful."
 
I am hoping to make a dent in the defense's reply to the plaintiffs' response to the second MtD this weekend. Should be pretty quiet here. I am not so sure when I will get to the KLI amicus curiae brief, although I would like to. But school is wringing the last week out of me before Capstone.
 
jespah said:
I am hoping to make a dent in the defense's reply to the plaintiffs' response to the second MtD this weekend. Should be pretty quiet here. I am not so sure when I will get to the KLI amicus curiae brief, although I would like to. But school is wringing the last week out of me before Capstone.
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remember your priorities. some procrastination helps creativity. too much kills deadlines.
 
steam235 said:
If he's doing it himself he might just like having it on hand and more complicated than just using something like go daddy. I can get behind that just like if they had a maker up artist donating time and effort that make up artist might go nuts with extra make up just for the fun of their craft. Once again if he just said it's a labor of love I do it for kicks and just expect it to have the stability of AAA home run server..... But he has to be a jerk about it.
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So I looked at godaddy email subpoena policy and they say they don't provide content of emails for subpoena except in limited circumstances, because the EPCA legislation. And they only back up customer email for 14 days (relevant if a deletion was done to avoid discovery I suppose). 2 weeks after you delete it, its gone.

Godaddy's normal interface is web based so it wouldn't automatically put copies of emails on any recipient's machine. In fact that interface is pretty much designed not to. But you could use godaddy email with a client program like Outlook that does download all the email contents.

Insofar as keeping emails out of the hands of plaintiffs, if there is any such motivation, this is probably just as good as having your own email server with which you could do as you please.

The email risk for Axanar if they are wanting their emails to be technologically disappeared is a person who has a computer setup to download and save emails. An insider with a store like that, who is a Doe, would have something to share. And this is not even considering any Doe who is part of another company and who had been in correspondence. But then who could possibly be pissed off enough to share emails?
 
Ha! HaHaHa! Maybe HRC should have used GoDaddy for her e-mail system!

As I said, I don't have the experience to judge his technical skills. But work did require me to earn a CompTIA Sec+ certificate, so I have enough book-knowledge to follow what you said. It makes sense to me.
 
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