I've seen a great deal of live mirrors, and generally the devs tell me that whenever they block one, it will spring up from another IP, and that they don't bother. There is/was a page on meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors) which is very inactive and which I don't see any comments from devs on, plus reporting en masse is a hassle.

If there is another more active page, I'd love to know about it, otherwise I can post here. An old list is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ST47/Mirrors

On 7/17/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:

We recently receive and OTRS tip <https://secure.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom https://secure.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID= 984033 &TicketID=984033>, that the site music.musictnt.com:

".is likely querying WP in real-time to serve-up WP's content +/- as-is, if not for the the lack of a proper GFDL notice. Aside from the copyright issues, this way of "Mirroring" is a drain on WP's bandwidth and server resources."

The user also mentioned that there was no clear place to contact about this type of problem. He now knows to contact Wikitech-l, but we may wish to advertise that more. (But that is a separate discussion entirely.)

I have not investigate this matter at all, I am just relaying the message.

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