[Foundation-l] Legal implications of hosting wikis outside of United States?

Fri Aug 5 21:00:15 UTC 2005

As for Europe, servers are usually not liable.

Le 3 août 05 à 15:07, Brion Vibber a écrit :

> We've got a new set of servers coming in South Korea real soon, and  
> are
> talking about the possibility of additional data centers elsewhere in
> Europe.
>
> With our current software system it's relatively straightforward to  
> move
> whole wikis to separate data centers; for instance moving German and
> French Wikipedias and some other languages to Europe, or Korean and
> other Asian languages to Korea. This could allow us to make better use
> of server resources for expansion.
>
> What would be the legal implications of serving some content from
> outside of the United States, in comparison to merely running them
> through a local caching proxy?
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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