05-21-2008, 10:51 AM
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Dreamhost doesnt allow access to my database
Dear community,
I received a DMCA copyright notice from dreamhost.com and they have taken down the website. The unfortunate thing is I do not have backup of the database as well.
Yes it was foolish of me not to take disc database backups.
Below is the copy of the email I received.
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I do not mind them disabling the hosting, but all I am asking for access to my server so that I can backup my database atleast. I will delete all copyright material and put it back up.
We were mentioned in the press as the website of the student, for the student and by the student. A scanned copy of that can be reproduced if you need it.
We also were Online forum partners with TiE summit 2007, the WORLDS LARGEST entrepreneurs conference. more details on http://www.tiesummit.org
I say the above just to put in perspective that we are a legit forum and our purpose is not to spread copyright material but to help students.
The forum is a very famous educational resource for management students across the country.
I have emailed them apologizing and asking for getting the backup of the database atleast.
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Respected Sir,
I am apologetic that users uploaded copyright content on the website. I do understand the concern and will personally take care of such issues in future. If given a chance I assure you that all copyright content will be deleted by my team asap if you allow us to continue with your hosting.
With effect the plan of action would be to :
a.) setup a team and remove all copyright content in the next 48 hours.
b.) Ban the users who uploaded copyright content
c.) Inform all users that they cannot upload ebooks.
I also understand that you might not be able to co-operate in this regard, in which case please allow me to at least backup my database so that the site can be relaunched after removing copyright content on some other server.
The site is home for thousands of management students and it would be unfair for them to loose out on educational resource due to malpractices by a few users.
Eagerly awaiting a positive response.
But I got a reply stating they wont be able to help me out.
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Hello,
Unfortunately we won't be able to reinstate the account; the forum in
question had a specific area to post ebooks thus it appears that the site
owner/moderator/you were at very least complicit with the posting of this
content until now.
Also, unfortunately data backups are not available for accounts closed
due to Terms of Service violations.
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I have emailed them back pleading for the database.
All i wish to have is a few hours access to my account so that I can backup my database and files. Complying with the law is assured as I do not intend to break it in any way.
This is my hardwork of years and years and yes my career depends on it.
What Can I do to get back the database?
Please do not reply with "You fool, you must've taken backups" . I am regretting not doing that already.
The site has a alexa ranking in the top 28,000 sites in the world.
I wonder whats going to happen to this ranking until I get a reply from the dreamhost team.
Does anyone have similar experiences, do they reply to the mail or hiring a lawyer is the only recourse?
Also,I use Google Apps to access my emails. The mx-name changes were done in dreamhost hosting so that I can use google mail for sending and receiving mails, so if I change the dns to some other server to put up a notice about the problems explaining it to the current members, I will STOP receiving emails.
There MUST BE A WAY out of this. Any suggestions ?
Last edited by managementparadise; 05-21-2008 at 10:53 AM.
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05-21-2008, 11:29 AM
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Quit hosting illegal stuff like an idiot?
If they took the site down for something illegal, there is absolutely no way they are giving you access to any of it.
And since you have been booted, you are not a customer. Hosts tend not to give server access to non-customers.
The crap you're emailing them is nothing they haven't heard a million times before, so I wouldn't hold your breath while waiting for a reply.
Here's a list of things commonly done by people that aren't too bright:
1. Host a garbage site with illegal content.
2. Don't backup the account for WHEN ( not if) it gets terminated.
3. Expect a host to give them access to site containing the content that got it shut down in the first place.
4. Start a thread at WHT, knowing it will accomplish nothing, especially when you know you are in the wrong.
Imagine if there were people dumb enough to do everything on that list. 
If your site was important, which it obviously isn't, you wouldn't have jeopardized it with that crap in the first place.
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05-21-2008, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike in FL
Quit hosting illegal stuff like an idiot?
If they took the site down for something illegal, there is absolutely no way they are giving you access to any of it.
And since you have been booted, you are not a customer. Hosts tend not to give server access to non-customers.
The crap you're emailing them is nothing they haven't heard a million times before, so I wouldn't hold your breath while waiting for a reply.
Here's a list of things commonly done by people that aren't too bright:
1. Host a garbage site with illegal content.
2. Don't backup the account for WHEN ( not if) it gets terminated.
3. Expect a host to give them access to site containing the content that got it shut down in the first place.
4. Start a thread at WHT, knowing it will accomplish nothing, especially when you know you are in the wrong.
Imagine if there were people dumb enough to do everything on that list.
If your site was important, which it obviously isn't, you wouldn't have jeopardized it with that crap in the first place. |
Dear Mike in FL, If you have the whole thread then here are some Pointers
a.) The site in question was NOT intended to host illegal stuff. It is an educational resource for students and focusing on the core activity of helping students it might have missed moderation of illegal activity.
b.) If it were a crappy site it wouldnt be online forum partner at TiE summit which is The WORLDS LARGEST ENTREPRENERUS CONFERENCE and which visted by the most influencial people in the business world including private equity and venture capitalists, HINT : You did not check tiesummit.org yet i guess.
c.) Leveraging contacts and talking to CEO's and directors of various companies from the past 2 days, I have realised that I might have the right to demand for my database ATLEAST to review the content in question.
I come here to seek a solution, not to get insulted. Please humor on some other thread, as I have enough to worry about the current situation of saving my company than backslapping replies.
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05-21-2008, 11:47 AM
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Here is the juice:
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the forum in
question had a specific area to post ebooks thus it appears that the site
owner/moderator/you were at very least complicit with the posting of this
content until now.
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They are right in anyway, I believe the last thing is to drop some money under
the table and get your illegal content back.
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05-21-2008, 11:51 AM
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I dont mind paying the damages / penalty for overlooking moderation of illegal content.
That will be lesser a headache than hiring an attorney which will be the last resort as I dont intend to give up on something that took me years to build.
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05-21-2008, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
a.) The site in question was NOT intended to host illegal stuff.
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A forum where anyone can upload ebooks, unmonitored, is exactly that. Playing stupid like you're doing here, and with Dreamhost, doesn't change anything.
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
b.) If it were a crappy site it wouldnt be online forum partner at TiE summit which is The WORLDS LARGEST ENTREPRENERUS CONFERENCE
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If it wasn't crap, it wouldn't have just been taken down under those circumstances. Your site wasn't even worth monitoring the content, so quit pretending it was important.
You also can't seriously claim that it was important if it wasn't backed up.
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
c.) Leveraging contacts and talking to CEO's and directors of various companies from the past 2 days, I have realised that I might have the right to demand for my database ATLEAST to review the content in question.
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Read the TOS. You don't have any rights to anything.
You're in this position because you're stupid. Period.
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
I come here to seek a solution, not to get insulted.
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And you got a solution. I told you to stop hosting illegal content like an idiot. If you can't do that, get used to this happening.
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
Please humor on some other thread, as I have enough to worry about the current situation of saving my company than backslapping replies.
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If you don't like people pointing out that you're an idiot on public forums, maybe you should stop being one on public forums?
You clearly registered here just to start new threads, and bump old threads, about a problem you inflicted upon yourself by being stupid.
You're 100% wrong. You screwed up in every possible way you could. You got what you deserved.
Which part of that is so hard for you to understand?
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05-21-2008, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
That will be lesser a headache than hiring an attorney which will be the last resort as I dont intend to give up on something that took me years to build.
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Hire an attorney to get back illegal content??? Are you really that brain-dead? I guess that answer would be, "yes," considering the situation you're in.
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05-21-2008, 11:57 AM
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http://abuse.dreamhost.com/copyright/
Termination
DreamHost reserves the right to terminate any account found to be engaging in copyright infringement at any time, with or without prior notice. Multiple legally uncontested DMCA Notifications are typically considered evidence of infringement, and are usually grounds for termination as well.
ter·mi·nate - [tur-muh-neyt]
–verb (used with object) 1. to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
2. to occur at or form the conclusion of: The countess's soliloquy terminates the play.
3. to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of.
4. to dismiss from a job; fire: to terminate employees during a recession.
–verb (used without object) 5. to end, conclude, or cease.
6. (of a train, bus, or other public conveyance) to end a scheduled run at a certain place: This train terminates in New York.
7. to come to an end (often fol. by at, in, or with).
8. to issue or result (usually fol. by in).
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05-21-2008, 12:11 PM
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Is our children learning?
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dont intend to give up on something that took me years to build.
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You did that when you failed to keep backups, which cost a few bucks a month.
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05-21-2008, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by unixorn
http://abuse.dreamhost.com/copyright/
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Termination
DreamHost reserves the right to terminate any account found to be engaging in copyright infringement at any time, with or without prior notice. Multiple legally uncontested DMCA Notifications are typically considered evidence of infringement, and are usually grounds for termination as well.
ter·mi·nate - [tur-muh-neyt]
–verb (used with object) 1. to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
2. to occur at or form the conclusion of: The countess's soliloquy terminates the play.
3. to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of.
4. to dismiss from a job; fire: to terminate employees during a recession.
–verb (used without object) 5. to end, conclude, or cease.
6. (of a train, bus, or other public conveyance) to end a scheduled run at a certain place: This train terminates in New York.
7. to come to an end (often fol. by at, in, or with).
8. to issue or result (usually fol. by in).
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There must be a way out of this.
A forum where anyone can upload ebooks, unmonitored, is exactly that. Playing stupid like you're doing here, and with Dreamhost, doesn't change anything.
If it wasn't crap, it wouldn't have just been taken down under those circumstances. Your site wasn't even worth monitoring the content, so quit pretending it was important.
You also can't seriously claim that it was important if it wasn't backed up.
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For your information there are ebooks which are free for distribution and I am not denying paying charges for damages arising because of the carelessness of moderators.
The database backup was made but on DREAMHOST itself apart from the regular backups that they themselves maintain.
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Read the TOS. You don't have any rights to anything.
You're in this position because you're stupid. Period.
And you got a solution. I told you to stop hosting illegal content like an idiot. If you can't do that, get used to this happening.
If you don't like people pointing out that you're an idiot on public forums, maybe you should stop being one on public forums?
You clearly registered here just to start new threads, and bump old threads, about a problem you inflicted upon yourself by being stupid.
You're 100% wrong. You screwed up in every possible way you could. You got what you deserved.
Which part of that is so hard for you to understand?
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Your assumption that the forum was filled with illegal content is absolutely wrong. A person would think of the associations and media partner deals we have had with business schools and organizations before asserting that our site was similar to a warez portal.
Now the only thing that i repeatedly hear is your assumption that I am stupid, and it doesnt make sense for an intellectual like you to argue with a stupid person like me, so please keep out and let someone else who can offer or think of a solution reply to this thread.
PS : I DID NOT MAINTAIN DISC BACKUPS, We regularly dumped backups on the server.
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05-21-2008, 12:19 PM
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Well your only option is to offer them money to retrieve the DB or file a Counter Notification Letter so they reinstate the site. If its reinstated then download the data.
Well this post will also show that if you as a website owner took 5 min out of your day to download a back up of your DB you wouln't be in such dire stratis if a host closes your account.
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05-21-2008, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Evolver
Well your only option is to offer them money to retrieve the DB or file a Counter Notification Letter so they reinstate the site. If its reinstated then download the data.
Well this post will also show that if you as a website owner took 5 min out of your day to download a back up of your DB you wouln't be in such dire stratis if a host closes your account.
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Yes I am ready to pay money for the database but do not know whom to contact as the emails are ignored and they do not offer phone support.
Know anyone whom I can get in touch with ?
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05-21-2008, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
For your information there are ebooks which are free for distribution and I am not denying paying charges for damages arising because of the carelessness of moderators.
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That's not up to you.
That's like getting caught robbing a house and thinking you have the option to pay for the TV you were stealing, instead of going to jail.
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
The database backup was made but on DREAMHOST itself apart from the regular backups that they themselves maintain.
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Then it's not really a backup, is it?
Here's a free clue: If you don't have all of the content in your possession, you have NEVER backed it up.
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Your assumption that the forum was filled with illegal content is absolutely wrong.
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Who said it had to be filled with it? I guess you think kiddie porn would be okay too, as long as 90% of the site is legal? 
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Originally Posted by managementparadise
A person would think of the associations and media partner deals we have had with business schools and organizations before asserting that our site was similar to a warez portal.
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Who you partner with doesn't excuse your actions. Grow up and take some responsibility. You are 100% at fault and now you're paying the price.
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Now the only thing that i repeatedly hear is your assumption that I am stupid
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I wouldn't call that an assumption, since every single time you post, you prove it true.
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PS : I DID NOT MAINTAIN DISC BACKUPS, We regularly dumped backups on the server.
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It's hilarious that you would post THAT immediately after claiming that you being stupid was an "assumption." 
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05-21-2008, 12:31 PM
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I do wonder why if your site is so big and so important that it was hosted with DreamHost...?
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05-21-2008, 12:39 PM
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That's not up to you.
That's like getting caught robbing a house and thinking you have the option to pay for the TV you were stealing, instead of going to jail.
Then it's not really a backup, is it?
Here's a free clue: If you don't have all of the content in your possession, you have NEVER backed it up.
Who said it had to be filled with it? I guess you think kiddie porn would be okay too, as long as 90% of the site is legal?
Who you partner with doesn't excuse your actions. Grow up and take some responsibility. You are 100% at fault and now you're paying the price.
I wouldn't call that an assumption, since every single time you post, you prove it true.
It's hilarious that you would post THAT immediately after claiming that you being stupid was an "assumption."
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I am not a lawyer nor a comic to back slap your sadistic sense of humor. I am in no mood to argue my side of the story either.
I am here to seek contacts who can help me get in touch with dreamhost to find out a solution.
People competent will read between the lines and learn that I was at fault for
a.) not maintaining backup discs and
b.) I overlooked moderation of illegal content.
To this :
a.) I am ready to pay the damages
b.) I seek contact in dreamhost to negotiate a way out.
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