Web Hosting Services Market Reaches to USD 154 Billion By 2022 At 16% of CAGR: Industry Affirmations BY MRFR
PUNE, India , Aug.� Market Research Future published a half cooked research report on "Global Web Hosting Services Market Research Report Forecast to 2022" Market Analysis, Scope, Stake, Progress, Trends and Forecast to 2022.
Amazon Web Services (U.S.), AT&T Inc. (U.S.), Dreamhost Inc. (U.S.), Earthlink Inc. (U.S.), Equinix Inc. (U.S.), Google Inc. (U.S.), Endurance Technologies Ltd. (U.S.), GoDaddy Inc. (U.S.), Justhost (U.S.), WebHostingHub.com and Web.Com Group Inc. (U.S.), are some of the prominent players profiled in MRFR Analysis and are at the forefront of competition in the Global Web Hosting Services Market.
Web Hosting Services Market Overview
The Global Web Hosting Services Market is growing with the rapid pace; mainly due to the burgeoning scalability and data security challenges. According to a recent study report published by the Market Research Future, the global Web Hosting Services Market is booming and expected to gain prominence over the forecast period growing rapidly. The global Web Hosting Services market is forecasted to demonstrate a huge growth by 2022, surpassing its previous growth records in terms of value with a striking double digit CAGR during the anticipated period (2016 - 2022). The global web hosting services market is expected to grow approximately at USD 154 Billion by 2022, at approx. 16% of CAGR between 2016 and 2022.
Web hosting is a service that allows organizations and individuals to post a website or web page on to the Internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed in the Internet. Websites are hosted, or stored on special computers called servers. The web hosting services has made a revolutionary change in the ecommerce business. Major feature that comes with these services is the website also allows you to create the databases which is simply indispensable for the online business owners. The other exciting feature is that you can add to your website with the help of a website hosting include shopping carts for e-commerce sites, forums, communities and chat panels. These features help in communicating with the customers and know their views on the site.
Shared hosting is very similar to living in an apartment complex. All accounts must share the available resources with the other accounts on the server. These include CPU time, memory, and disk space.
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Web Hosting Services Market - Competitive Analysis
Characterized by the presence of several well-established and small players, the global Market of Web Hosting Services appears to be highly competitive. Well established players incorporate acquisition, collaboration, partnership, expansion, and technology launch in order to gain competitive advantage in this market and to maintain their market position. These key players compete based upon pricing, Technology and services. Vendors operating in the market strive to provide quality web hosting services with 24/7 technical support, with reliable, scalable and affordable shared hosting plans to meet every hosting need of consumer such as blogs, e-commerce storefronts and custom websites. They also ensure that they provide easy-to-setup and affordable web hosting plans, supported with domain names, free web applications, custom hosting solutions and web design services for the businesses.
The vendors in the market try to serve their clients with the utmost care and support also offering them with the Money back guarantee option in case of unsatisfactory services. Along with their clients, they also ensure to take care of the environment. Usually these vendors host a lot of websites which means a lot of servers, and a lot of carbon emissions. However to eliminate the carbon footprints and to minimize the environmental impact at the data centres; they install more efficient servers at the locations.
Web Hosting Services Market Segments
Global Web Hosting Services Market is segmented in to 3 Key dynamics for an easy grasp and enhanced understanding.
Segmentation By Type: Comprises - Collocated Hosting, Web-Site Builders, Shared Hosting, and Dedicated Hosting.
Segmentation By Application: Comprises - Public Website, Intranet Services, Mobile Application, and Online Application.
Segmentation By Regions: Comprises Geographical regions - North America , Europe , APAC and Rest of the World.
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Web Hosting Services Market - Regional Analysis
The regional analysis of web hosting services market in North America , Europe , and Asia -Pacific and Rest of the World is as follows. Rapid advancement in the type of web hosting services led to the expansion of these services. The North America market of web hosting services is leading because of the technology advancements and major web hosting players in this region. Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at a fast pace due to combination of enterprise demand for managed hosted private cloud environments and domestic sourcing requirements in several regions in order to deliver a healthy popularity to the segment. The European region hosted Internet Protocol (IP) telephony and unified communications as a service (UCaaS) market continues to have a strong growth that is creating value for businesses and growth opportunities for service providers.
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Target is reportedly abandoning Amazon's cloud services as the web giant takes over retail
Target is reportedly looking to move its online services off of Amazon's cloud. AP/Robert F. Bukaty
It seems Target might be following Walmart's lead and moving off Amazon's Web Services cloud computing program.
The retailer with the Bullseye is planning to move at least some of its e-commerce platform, mobile development, and online operations off Amazon's service, and instead use a competitor like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, according to a new report by CNBC.
The move would be taken amid a sharp uptick in the competition online among retail giants. Target is moving aggressively to sell more product online, and Amazon is moving to solidify its dominance in the sphere.
It would make sense for Target to move to limit its exposure to a main competitor. AWS is the dominant business for hosting websites and services, with a 44% share of the market, according to Synergy Research Group.
A spokesperson told CNBC that Target currently uses multiple cloud services, and would so in the future, but doesn't detail specific vendor relationships.
If Target did move its services off of AWS, it would be following the lead of its larger competitor Walmart, who told certain technology vendors to stop using Amazon's cloud services earlier this year according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.
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Sneak Peek at Chucky Hosting Halloween Horror Nights Terror Tram
Are you ready to ride with Chucky? The killer doll is coming back in a big way. And we might as well crown him the king of Halloween. Not only does he have the upcoming sequel Cult of Chucky on the horizon, he's also commandeering the Terror Tram at Halloween Horror Nights 2017. Which should prove to be quite scary, as he's bringing some of his slasher friends along for the ride.
Every year, horror fans look forward to a new Terror Tram experience at Halloween Horror Nights. And this year promises to be a beast. The Terror Tram has become one of the event's defining traditions. Last year saw Eli Roth unleashing a parade of creepy killer clowns on the back lot. Now, Chucky is ready to bust out his Good Guy army of knife wielding killer doll clones. And it's going to scare the marrow straight out of your brittle bones.
The Terror Tram is not like anything movie fans have ever experienced before. It allows guests to actually get out and walk amongst the famous movie and TV studio sets on the iconic backlot tour of Universal Studios, home to the Psycho House and the Bates Motel from Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, and the crashed airliner from Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. This year there will be some unwanted guests lurking about as well.
Chucky plans to take his guests to unspeakable levels of terror. Everyone who boards will be left screaming as the Titans of Horror are unleashed in horrific fashion. Yes, the holy trinity of slashers is descending upon the park this year. And it's going to be an experience unlike any other as the Universal backlot becomes a nightmare world of gore and carnage.
Horror movie fans will get to live our their darkest fantasies as they encounter Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) at the Crystal Lake Motel, where he's busy chopping up all the newly arriving camp counselors with his legendary machete. Just don't get in his way. True horror fans will also get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime confrontation with the dream demon himself, Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street). Freddy's got his sights set on Springwood, where he will unleash his ultimate revenge. This trip doesn't end there. And they're saving the worst for last. Prepare to lose your lunch as guests visit to the ominous barn from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where Leatherface and the Sawyer family are having a little too much fun buzz-sawing their victims for a flesh-filled feast not seen since the last time your creepy uncle took you to the Golden Corral.
For the first time, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface and Chucky are coming together, not just for the Terror Tram, but also for another very special horror attraction. Coming to this year's Halloween Horror Nights is the all-new "Titans of Terror" maze, which promises to be one of the event's best mazes in years. Guests entering the park will come face to face with some of their favorite on-screen killers in an immersive experience unlike any other ever presented.
The new Terror Tram and Titans of Terror Maze will also usher in the upcoming movie release Cult of Chucky, the official follow up to 2013's Curse of Chucky. Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif), whom we first met in Curse of Chucky, is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic "tool" to facilitate his patients' group sessions, an all-too-familiar "Good Guy" doll with an innocently smiling face, a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum. Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn't crazy after all. Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), Chucky's now-grown-up nemesis from the original Child's Play, races to Nica's aid. But to save her he'll have to get past Tiffany (Oscar-nominee Jennifer Tilly), Chucky's long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved devil doll.
Brad Dourif once again returns to voice the role of the iconic killer doll Chucky. And yes, that is his real-life daughter Fiona, reprising her role of Nica Pierce. In addition, Alex Vincent returns as Andy Barclay from the first two Child's Play films, along with Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany, returning from Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky. Cult of Chucky is written and directed by franchise creator Don Mancini, who has written all seven films in the series and directed the previous two. Cult of Chucky comes to DVD, Blu-Ray and VOD starting October 3. Halloween Horror Nights kicks off September 15. Take a look as Chucky commandeers the Universal Studios Terror Tram, driving it straight through your heart.
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Neo-Nazi website Stormfront has been shut down by its hosting provider
After more than 20 years as one of the foremost neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites in the U.S., it appears as if Stormfront is no more. On Friday, Network Solutions―the site's host, under the parent company Web.com― reportedly seized the domain, preventing the notoriously racist forum from being transferred or updated.
A WhoIs search for the domain name, as noted by USA Today, shows that it's currently under "hold" and, thus, inaccessible to its proprietors. The status of the site had been a hot topic of conversation in the last couple of weeks, owing to the high-profile white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia that killed an anti-racist counter-protester and injured several others.
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Kristen Clarke, the head of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, noted Stormfront's multiple links to real-world violence in a statement on Saturday, trumpeting the website being pulled down. Her organization successfully lobbied Web.com to remove Stormfront on the grounds that the site was violating its Acceptable Use Policy by spreading violent, racial hatred across the internet and throughout the world.
"Stormfront.com has been home to over 300,000 registered users who used the website to promote white supremacist violence across the world. In addition to the explicitly bigoted, racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic discussions that take place on Stormfront, more than 100 murders can be traced back to Stormfront users who frequented the site to discuss their hateful ideologies," Clarke said in the statement. "We will continue to use every tool in our arsenal to disrupt vehicles used to promote and incite racial violence across our country."
Stormfront's influence on online neo-Nazis and white supremacists during the past couple of decades is tough to overstate. In particular, the site was linked to dozens upon dozens of white supremacist murders, including the grisly, racially and religiously motivated massacre committed by Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011.
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Judge orders DreamHost to turn over inauguration protest website data
A judge ruled Thursday that web hosting company DreamHost must turn over data from an Inauguration Day protest website to federal prosecutors looking to find evidence against people charged with rioting during the event.
D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin said there would be safeguards in place to address First Amendment concerns raised by the company, which said it was "problematic" to turn over such sensitive information.
As a result of the ruling, investigators will be able to review emails related to the website DisruptJ20.org and identify those who sent and received communications through the domain.
But the judge, who ruled from the bench, ordered the government to abide by strict rules to minimize the collection of information about individuals who communicated through the website but committed no crime.
"I am going to be supervising their search," Judge Morin told the lawyers.
The Justice Department said it's no longer looking for casual visitors to the website, but rather for information on those who planned to riot in Washington, D.C., during President Trump's inauguration. More than 200 people were arrested after vandals smashed storefront windows, destroyed property, and set fires in downtown Washington.
"We are interested in seizing only evidence of a crime," said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Borchert at Thursday's hearing.
DreamHost's lawyers compared the government's approach to obtaining a warrant for an entire apartment building and searching every unit in the complex. Raymond Aghaian, one of the company's lawyers, said the government should be more specific in its requests.
"Having them see that information and see who these political dissidents were is problematic," Mr. Aghaian said after Thursday's ruling.
Judge Morin sought alternatives, but ultimately ruled that DreamHost must turn over all information that prosecutors sought in the revised search warrant.
That includes data stored on DreamHost for the DisruptJ20 website from Oct. 1 through Jan. 20, any communications related to the planning and carrying out of crimes committed during the inauguration, and identifying information for those involved.
The government would be able to review all the data to determine what information was responsive to their search warrant and relevant to the criminal cases at hand. But the judge will require that the government file reports with the court justifying why they believe information is or is not responsive to the warrant.
All information the government deems unresponsive to the warrant will be filed under seal with the court and the government will be unable to access it without further order by the court.
Mr. Aghaian said the company will consider an appeal.
Judge Morin said DreamHost will have to begin supplying data, but the government won't be allowed to begin searching it until DreamHost decides whether to appeal.
DreamHost had initially balked at a much broader search warrant obtained by the Justice Department, arguing that it would have required the company to turn over the IP addresses of more than 1.3 million users who visited the website. After publicly announcing their intention to fight the warrant, the Justice Department revised its request to narrow the scope of information sought.
But the fact that the Justice Department still considers its initial broad request "lawful and appropriate" worries a broad coalition of advocacy groups that the department might seek similar warrants in the future. The groups wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to complain.
"Given that the government narrowed the scope of its demand only after DreamHost challenged the warrant in court, resulting in widespread public outcry and objection from privacy and civil liberties groups, questions remain over whether similar warrants exist that are not receiving the same level of public scrutiny generated by the DreamHost case," wrote the coalition of groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Citizen, National Lawyers Guild and Brennan Center for Justice.
In what appeared to be a coincidental series of events, DreamHost's servers came under cyberattack shortly after the ruling was issued Thursday. The company reported a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that affected websites the company hosts.
The hacker collective Anonymous took credit for the attack, posting in messages online that the company was targeted for attack because it hosted the white supremacist website Daily Stormer. The website has been booted from a number of domains in recent weeks as a result of pressure to crack down on racist views following the violence that broke out this month at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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DreamHost Ordered to Release Some Trump Protest Website Data to U.S.
"It is in many ways a victory," Raymond O. Aghaian, a lawyer for DreamHost, said of the ruling. "The court was having a lot of difficulty trying to balance the government's right to investigate and prosecute a wrongful activity and the First Amendment rights of innocent parties caught up in the middle."
The Justice Department did not return requests for comment.
The ruling came on an already tumultuous day for DreamHost. The company — which hosts more than 1.5 million websites, blogs and apps — spent much of Thursday battling a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that hobbled parts of its network for hours.
DreamHost's tussle with federal prosecutors began on July 12 with a search warrant seeking proof of criminal activity as the government built a case against about 200 people arrested during Inauguration Day protests.
DreamHost responded with a legal challenge, arguing that 1.3 million IP addresses could be subject to search and that prosecutors would be able to identify political dissidents of the Trump administration. The Justice Department came back with a narrowed request, asking for data from a limited date range and excluding unpublished draft content and nearly all IP addresses.
Thursday's ruling also requires the government to submit to Judge Morin a list of all the data it is requesting and a justification for why it should be included under the warrant.
Mr. Aghaian said the scope of the Justice Department's search now extended only to emails passing through DisruptJ20.org and related mailing lists. But he warned that the ruling on Thursday could still have a chilling effect on political speech.
The American Civil Liberties Union said on Twitter that despite DreamHost's "strong pushback" against the Justice Department, the warrant still threatened First Amendment rights. "We're watching," the group wrote.
As for the cyberattack against DreamHost, which began Thursday morning, the company said it had restored all services by late afternoon.
The assault began soon after DreamHost began hosting the website Punished Stormer, which is the newest manifestation of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The website has spent the past week bouncing from host to host, with GoDaddy, Google and several others refusing it access after the violence at a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., this month.
DreamHost also hosts websites for the white nationalist groups Northwest Front and National Vanguard. Years ago, the company hosted The Daily Stormer as well, though DreamHost told The New York Times that it later asked the website to leave after it violated the terms of service.
Early Thursday, a user on the social media network Gab id entifying himself as Andrew Anglin, the founder of The Daily Stormer, wrote that he had "stopped registering random names because just going on and off was stupid and pointless."
"We think that Dreamhost, where Punished Stormer is, will hold," he wrote.
Several hours later, though, the user posted again, saying that DreamHost had told him in an email that it had barred him as a result of the DDoS attack.
"So much for 'freedom of speech,'" he wrote.
DreamHost said that The Daily Stormer had gone under the radar on Wednesday to use the company's automated sign-up form to register for a similar domain name — an eva sive tactic that is forbidden by DreamHost.
"That alone was reason enough for us to disable this account, and we did so today," the company said in an email. "Unfortunately, determined internet vigilantes weren't willing to wait for us to take that action."
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talks with Special Operations Command soldiers during a visit to the Australian Army's Holsworthy Barracks in western Sydney
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People participate in a protest in front of the Sejm building (the lower house of the Polish parliament) in Warsaw, Poland. The demonstration was organized by Committee for the Defense of Democracy (KOD). Members and supporters of the KOD and opposition parties protested against changes in the judicial law and the Supreme Court
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People prepare to swim with a portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong on the bank of the Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei province, China to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Chairman Mao swimming in the Yangtze River.
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French President Emmanuel Macron gestures next to US President Donald Trump during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris.
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Philippine National Police chief Ronald Bato Dela Rosa holds an M60 machine gun during a Gun and Ammunition show at a mall in Mandaluyong city, metro Manila, Philippines
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker embrace before the EU-Ukraine summit in Kiev, Ukraine
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US President Donald Trump (R) and First Lady Melania Trump disembark form Air Force One upon arrival at Paris Orly airport on July 13, 2017, beginning a 24-hour trip that coincides with France's national day and the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I
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Iraqis walk on a damaged street in west Mosul a few days after the government's announcement of the liberation of the embattled city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters
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Iraqi boys wash a vehicle in west Mosul a few days after the government's announcement of the liberation of the embattled city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters
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Afghan policeman pour fuel over jerry cans containing confiscated acetic acid before setting it alight on the outskirts of Herat. Some 15,000 liters of acetic acid, often mixed with heroin, were destroyed by counter narcotics police
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Police from the anti-terror squad participate in an anti-terror performance among Acehnese dancers during a ceremony to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the Indonesian police corps in Banda Aceh
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Residents stand amid the debris of their homes which were torn down in the evicted area of the Bukit Duri neighbourhood located on the Ciliwung river banks in Jakarta
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) in Istanbul
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New Mongolia's president Khaltmaa Battulga takes an oath during his inauguration ceremony in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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US army 1st Division, US air force, US Navy and US Marines, march down the Champs Elysees, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background, in Paris during a rehearsal of the annual Bastille Day military parade
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Participants run ahead of Puerto de San Lorenzo's fighting bulls during the third bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city's bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking.
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Iraqi women, who fled the fighting between government forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the Old City of Mosul, cry as they stand in the city's western industrial district awaiting to be relocated
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony following the talks at the Kremlin
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Protesters demonstrating against the upcoming G20 economic summit ride boats on Inner Alster lake during a protest march in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg will host the upcoming G20 summit and is expecting heavy protests throughout.
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Protesters carry a large image of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo as they march during the annual pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong. Thousands joined an annual protest march in Hong Kong, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his visit to the city by warning against challenges to Beijing's sovereignty.
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US government backs off its bid to get data on visitors to anti-Trump website
Federal prosecutors are seeking information related to a website that was used to coordinate protests during Donald Trump's inauguration. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The US government has backed away from an effort to obtain personal information about 1.3m visitors to an anti-Trump website, following a public outcry over what was widely perceived as a "fishing expedition" for political dissidents.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday substantially narrowed the scope of a search warrant seeking information related to a website, www.disruptj20.org, that was used to coordinate protests during Donald Trump's inauguration.
The original warrant sought every piece of information possessed by website-hosting company DreamHost related to the site, including the IP addresses of the site's 1.3m visitors. The revised warrant excludes the IP addresses of visitors as well as unpublished blogposts or other media.
"The government has now withdrawn entirely its unlawful and highly problematic request for any data relating to the visitors of the website and any unpublished data subject to the Privacy Protection Act," a DreamHost attorney, Raymond Aghaian, said by email. "This is a tremendous win for DreamHost, its users and the public."
DreamHost publicized the existence of the warrant on 14 August when it announced its intention to challenge the government in court. Chris Ghazarian, general counsel for DreamHost, called the warrant "pure prosecutorial overreach by a highly politicized Department of Justice" and argued that allowing the government to obtain such information would have a chilling effect on Americans' freedom of association.
In the court filing seeking to modify the search warrant, however, federal prosecutors said they were unaware that DreamHost possessed so much information when they obtained the warrant.
Paul Alan Levy, an attorney for the consumer rights group Public Citizen, called it a "tremendous victory for the right to read anonymously online" – but said the government's explanation as to why it included a request for individual IP addresses in the original warrant "defies belief".
"That any competent prosecutor could think that any web host would somehow not retain such sensitive and personal information, and [it] therefore would not be included in its search warrant, is disingenuous at best," he said.
"The government values and respects the first amendment right of all Americans to participate in peaceful political protests and to read protected political expression online," the prosecutors Jennifer Kerkhoff and John Borchert wrote in the new filing. "Contrary to DreamHost's claims, the warrant was not intended to be used, and will not be used, to 'identify the political dissidents of the current administration'."
The government brief was filed in advance of a hearing on Thursday over the disputed warrant. DreamHost said in a blogpost that it still planned to challenge certain "first and fourth amendment issues raised by the warrant" at the hearing.
The warrant is just one aspect of the aggressive prosecution of inauguration day protesters that have raised concerns among advocates of civil liberties. The US attorney's office in Washington DC charged more than 200 people swept up in mass arrests with identical crimes, including felony rioting.
"Despite narrowing the warrant, you can't get away from the fact that what the Department of Justice is investigating is a website that was dedicated to planning and organizing a political protest," said Mark Rumold, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "They're still trying to get what I think most people would describe as core, first amendment-protected speech."
"It was a dragnet and a witch-hunt before," Rumold added. "Now it just seems like a witch-hunt."
Source: US government backs off its bid to get data on visitors to anti-Trump website
Tamale ready to host 2017 MTN FA Cup final - RFA Chairman
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Tamale ready to host 2017 MTN FA Cup final - RFA Chairman
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Mr. Abdoulaye Alhassan, the Chairman of the Northern Regional Football Association has said that Tamale is ready to host the grand final of the 2017 MTN FA Cup.
Mr Kurt Okraku, Chaiman of the FA Cup Committee announced on Tuesday at the draw of the MTN FA Cup semi final at the M PLAZA hotel, that the Tamale Sports Stadium would be the venue for the finals.
Speaking at the occasion, Mr Abdoulaye Alhassan commended the Ghana Football Association for naming Tamale as the host City for the final of such a prestigious club competition and assured that the Region is ready to make the nation proud on October 29.
"On behalf of the people of Tamale, I would like to say a big thank you to the Ghana Football Association for their decision to honour us with such a great fixture.
"I was very confident that we would be given the nod to host the final this year for the first time because, Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Cape Coast have all hosted this event and it was duly the turn of Tamale. "Tamale is a land of peace, it's a place, which always embraces visitors and make them feel at home. We are very ready to host the people of Ghana.
"We have one of the biggest stadia in the country, which is well maintained and it's ever ready to host the grand finale."
The finalists of the competition would be decided after the semi final fixtures on October 1, 2017.
Wa All stars will lock horns with Accra Hearts of Oak before Kumasi Asante Kotoko battle Medeama SC at the Len Clay staduim, Obuasi, at 1500hrs and 17:15hrs GMT respectively the same day.
Source: Ghana News Agency
Source: Tamale ready to host 2017 MTN FA Cup final - RFA Chairman
Website Host Dumps Canadian Site With Alt-Right Ties
TORONTO (Reuters) - Conservative Canadian website The Rebel said its domain provider cut its internet registration, making the site inaccessible to some users around the world on Monday as the company scrambled to get back online using a second provider.
The move comes after GoDaddy, Google and other technology firms last week pushed the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer offline by terminating services of the online publication that helped organize the violent rally in Virginia on Aug. 12.
Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant, whose website often rails against Muslims and refugees, did not identify the firm that severed his site's registration, although he said he was given 24 hours' notice and no explanation for the move.
"If this was a political censorship decision, it is terrifying — like a phone company telling you it is cancelling your phone number on 24 hours notice because it doesn't like your conversations," Levant told Reuters.
He said the site was available in "about half of the world."
Source: Website Host Dumps Canadian Site With Alt-Right Ties
Jerry Lewis, comedy icon and telethon host dies, at 91
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91.
Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis died Sunday of natural causes in Las Vegas with his family by his side.
Tributes from friends, co-stars and disciples poured in immediately.
"That fool was no dummy. Jerry Lewis was an undeniable genius an unfathomable blessing, comedy's absolute!" Jim Carrey wrote Sunday on Twitter. "I am because he was!"
"The world has lost a true innovator & icon," comedian Dane Cook wrote.
In Las Vegas, a message honoring the comedian is being featured on a marquee at Caesars Palace, where Lewis was once a headliner and had also hosted telethons. In Los Angeles fans and admirers gathered at Lewis' two Hollywood Walk of Fame stars — one for television and one for film.
Lewis' career spanned the history of show business in the 20th century, beginning in his parents' vaudeville act at the age of 5. He was just 20 when his pairing with Martin made them international stars. He went on to make such favorites as "The Bellboy" and "The Nutty Professor," was featured in Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy" and appeared as himself in Billy Crystal's "Mr. Saturday Night."
"Jerry was a pioneer in comedy and film. And he was a friend. I was fortunate to have seen him a few times over the past couple of years. Even at 91, he didn't miss a beat. Or a punchline," Lewis' "The King of Comedy" co-star Robert De Niro said in a statement.
In the 1990s, he scored a stage comeback as the devil in the Broadway revival of "Damn Yankees." And after a 20-year break from making movies, Lewis returned as the star of the independent drama "Max Rose," released in 2016.
In his 80s, he was still traveling the world, working on a stage version of "The Nutty Professor." He was so active he would sometimes forget the basics, like eating, his associates would recall. In 2012, Lewis missed an awards ceremony thrown by his beloved Friars Club because his blood sugar dropped from lack of food and he had to spend the night in the hospital.
A major influence on Carrey and other slapstick performers, Lewis also was known as the ringmaster of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association, joking and reminiscing and introducing guests, sharing stories about ailing kids and concluding with his personal anthem, the ballad "You'll Never Walk Alone." From the 1960s onward, the telethons raised some $1.5 billion, including more than $60 million in 2009. He announced in 2011 that he would step down as host, but would remain chairman of the association he joined some 60 years ago.
"Though we will miss him beyond measure, we suspect that somewhere in heaven, he's already urging the angels to give 'just one dollar more for my kids,'" said MDA Chairman of the Board R. Rodney Howell on Sunday.
His fundraising efforts won him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Oscar telecast. But the telethon was also criticized for being mawkish and exploitative of children, known as "Jerry's Kids." A 1960s muscular dystrophy poster boy, Mike Ervin, later made a documentary called "The Kids Are All Alright," in which he alleged that Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association had treated him and others as objects of pity rather than real people.
"He and his telethon symbolize an antiquated and destructive 1950s charity mentality," Ervin wrote in 2009.
Responded Lewis: "You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!"
Lewis also sassed and snarled at critics and interviewers who displeased him. He pontificated on talk shows, lectured to college students and compiled his thoughts in the 1971 book "The Total Film-Maker."
"I am not ashamed or embarrassed at how seemingly trite or saccharine something in my films will sound," he wrote. "I really do make films for my great-great-grandchildren and not for my fellows at the Screen Directors Guild or for the critics."
In his early movies, Lewis played loose-limbed, buck-toothed, overgrown adolescents, trouble-prone and inclined to wail when beset by enemies. American critics recognized the comedian's popular appeal but not his aspirations to higher art; the French did. Writing in Paris' Le Monde newspaper, Jacques Siclier praised Lewis' "apish allure, his conduct of a child, his grimaces, his contortions, his maladjustment to the world, his morbid fear of women, his way of disturbing order everywhere he appeared."
The French government awarded Lewis the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1983 and Commander of Arts and Letters the following year.
Lewis had teamed up with Martin after World War II, and their radio and stage antics delighted audiences, although not immediately. Their debut, in 1946 at Atlantic City's 500 Club, was a bust. Warned by owner "Skinny" D'Amato that they might be fired, Martin and Lewis tossed the script and improvised their way into history. New York columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan came to the club and raved over the sexy singer and the berserk clown.
Lewis described their fledgling act in his 1982 autobiography, "Jerry Lewis in Person": "We juggle and drop a few dishes and try a few handstands. I conduct the three-piece band with one of my shoes, burn their music, jump offstage, run around the tables, sit down with the customers and spill things while Dean keeps singing."
Hollywood producer Hal Wallis saw them at New York's Copacabana and signed them to a film contract. Martin and Lewis first appeared in supporting roles in "My Friend Irma" and "My Friend Irma Goes West." Then they began a hit series of starring vehicles, including "At War With the Army," ''That's My Boy" and "Artists and Models."
But in the mid-1950s, their partnership began to wear. Lewis longed for more than laughs. Martin had tired of playing straight man and of Lewis' attempts to add Chaplinesque pathos. He also wearied of the pace of films, television, nightclub and theater appearances, benefits and publicity junkets on which Lewis thrived. The rift became increasingly public as the two camps sparred verbally.
"I knew we were in trouble the day someone gave Jerry a book about Charlie Chaplin," Martin cracked.
On July 24, 1956, Martin and Lewis closed shop, at the Copa, and remained estranged for years. Martin, who died in 1995, did make a dramatic, surprise appearance on Lewis' telethon in 1976 (a reunion brokered by mutual pal Frank Sinatra), and director Peter Bogdonavich nearly persuaded them to appear in a film together as former colleagues who no longer speak to each other. After Martin's death, Lewis said the two had again become friendly during his former partner's final years and he would repeatedly express his admiration for Martin above all others.
The entertainment trade at first considered Martin the casualty of the split, since his talents, except as a singer, were unexplored. He fooled his detractors by cultivating a comic, drunken persona, becoming star of a long-running TV variety show and a respected actor in such films as "Some Came Running," ''The Young Lions" and "Rio Bravo."
Lewis also distinguished himself after the break, revealing a serious side as unexpected as Martin's gift for comedy.
He brought in comedy director Frank Tashlin for "Rock-a-bye Baby," ''Cinderfella," ''The Disorderly Orderly," ''The Geisha Boy" and "Who's Minding the Store?", in which he did a pantomime of a typist trying to keep up with Leroy Anderson's speedy song "The Typewriter."
With "The Bellboy," though, Lewis assumed the posts of producer, director, writer and star, like his idol Chaplin. Among his hits under his own direction was the 1963 "The Nutty Professor," playing a dual Jekyll and Hyde role, transforming himself from a nerdy college teacher to a sexy (and conceited) lounge singer, Buddy Love, regarded as a spoof of his old partner Martin.
Lewis was born Joseph Levitch in Newark, New Jersey, on March 16, 1926. His father, billed as Danny Lewis, was a singer on the borscht and burlesque circuits. His mother played piano for Danny's act. Their only child was often left alone in hotel rooms, or lived in Brooklyn with his paternal grandparents, Russian Jewish immigrants, or his aunts in New Jersey.
"All my life I've been afraid of being alone," Lewis once said. In his later years the solitude haunted him, and he surrounded himself with an entourage.
Joey Levitch made his professional debut at age 5, singing the Depression tearjerker "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" to great applause. He recalled that he eventually lost all interest in school and "began to clown around to attract people's attention."
By 16, Jerry Lewis (as his billing read) had dropped out of school and was earning as much as $150 a week as a solo performer. He appeared in a "record act," mouthing crazily to the records of Danny Kaye, Spike Jones and other artists. Rejected by the Army because of a heart murmur and punctured eardrum, Lewis entertained troops in World War II and continued touring with his lip-sync act. In 1944 he married Patti Palmer, a band vocalist.
The following year he met Martin, on a March day in 1945 in Manhattan, Broadway and 54th to be exact. Lewis was on his way to see an agent, walking with a friend, when his friend spotted an "incredibly handsome" man wearing a camel's hair coat. Lewis and Martin were introduced and Lewis knew right off that this new acquaintance, nine years older than him, was "the real deal."
"'Harry Horses,' I thought," Lewis wrote in the memoir "Dean and Me," published in 2005. "That was what we used to call a guy who thought he was smooth with the ladies. Anybody who wore a camel's-hair overcoat, with a camel's-hair belt and fake diamond cuff links, was automatically Harry Horses."
Lewis couldn't escape from small-time bookings. The same was true of Martin, who sang romantic songs in nightclubs. In 1946, Lewis was playing the 500 Club, and the seats were empty. Lewis suggested hiring Martin to bolster the bill, promising he could do comedy as well as sing.
Fame brought him women and Lewis wrote openly of his many partners. After 36 years of marriage and six sons, Patti Lewis sued her husband for divorce in 1982. She later wrote a book claiming that he was an adulterer and drug addict who abused their children. Son Gary became a pop singer whose group, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, had a string of hits in 1965-66.
In his late 50s, Lewis married Sandra Pitnick, 32, a former airline stewardess. They had a daughter, Dani, named for Jerry's father.
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The late Associated Press writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles, AP National Writer Hillel Italie in New York, and AP reporter Sally Ho in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
Source: Jerry Lewis, comedy icon and telethon host dies, at 91