Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 04/11/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
wrote:
U.S. law must absolutely be the first that we
look at in any given
situation, just because the servers are there. We could probably get
away with ignoring the laws of all other countries, but that could have
other consequences.
What happened to the "Asian cluster" and now servers in Germany, I believe?
We have caching proxies in South Korea and the Netherlands.
(A few sites used to be actually hosted in Korea as an experiment, which
we abandoned a few weeks ago to simplify our setup.)
Wikimedia has no servers at all in Germany, though Wikimedia Deutschland
is providing some additional servers to our data center in the
Netherlands. As with the others these will be caching proxies and don't
store, host or manage actual content themselves beyond proxying HTTP
requests.
All content is hosted in and ultimately served from the United States.
</not a lawyer and cannot speak to legal issues>
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)