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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 07 2019, @09:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-their-servers-and-site dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

A US-based hosting company, Profreehost, has suspended a developer's account over what pretty much boils down to the use of the word "torrent" in the name of one of the packages uploaded to the service.

The developer, identified as "Maurerr" by TorrentFreak – who are reporting about the case -found out that his account had been suspended for "prohibited activity" shortly after uploading a package with the LibTorrent library to his repository containing open-source Linux software.

Neither BitTorrent itself as the protocol, nor the library in question – a building block used in a number of torrent clients – are in any way illegal, even if they are widely used for peer-to-peer sharing of pirated material. Yet despite this association, it's a curious move, to say the least, to effectively ban anything with the word "torrent" from a hosting platform.

"Torrents and torrent related content is strictly prohibited on our service," TorrentFreak said it learned from Profreehost.

Source: https://reclaimthenet.org/profreehost-ban/


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:28PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:28PM (#840130)

    They should go a step further and ban everything that might be used to share information. Such as those pesky HTTP web server programs. You can't be too safe!

    Meanwhile torrent software should chose a new name, such as "freedom". So when these assholes ban freedom, it is more obvious to everyone what they are doing.

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