As a web host myself, I'm taking tommy's side on this one.

Some of you guys don't realize how hard it is to offer you web hosting.

I am no longer with the same provider as tommy any more, but I know the guy, and he is a prick. If he found warez on a site hosted by tommy, he'd have no hesitation to suspend all accounts.

As for your logic, Sir_LoJik, it is completely wrong. If indeed it was not you whom uploaded the various files in question, it is still your fault for letting them appear. It was you who gave power to others for the ability to upload to your hosting.

Picture it this way:

If you rent out an apartment, and give 100 people keys to the apartment, and 4 of them are drug dealers who decide to use your rented apartment to store their "merchandise"...when the cops bust down the door, they don't give a shit...they will arrest you for supplying a house for the product.

The same principle is online. If you provide housing for illegal files, you are subject to the penalties.

Tommy did you no wrong, if anything he helped you.

That's right...helped you.

See... I host several sites, and I warn them 1 time not to upload warez or illegal files. If I catch any of them doing that, I take that as a flat out "fuck you", and I would not hesitate to report them to the company of the files that they were trying to share.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for file sharing, but I'm not going to put my balls on the line for the people I host...and apparently neither will tommy.

Welcome to Life.


Btw... if you were really that concerned about using your site as a shining beacon on your application for jobs, you would have bought hosting and your own domain just to give it the extra edge. So obviously, you didn't rely on your site that much.

If I was a job employer, I wouldn't be that impressed if I saw a site attatched as a subdomain.