The FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia’s provider with offices in the US and London) to remove physically one of our servers. The order was so short term that Rackspace had to give away our hard drives in the UK.
The servers hosted numerous local IMCs. If you find a site is down: that might be the reason
The reason why the hard drives were taken are unknown.
Indymedia.org
FBI Seizes IMC Servers in the UK