A view of the OVH server building based in Roubaix

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A view of the OVH server building based in Roubaix, northern France, December 3, 2010. The French government is examining how it could ban website WikiLeaks from being hosted on servers in France, according to a letter written by Industry Minister Eric Besson and seen by Reuters on Friday. The letter addressed to ministry officials said WikiLeaks, which has infuriated Washington by releasing some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, had been partly hosted by French company OVH since U.S. host Amazon stopped supporting it on Thursday. OVH said in a statement that it was seeking an urgent court ruling to address the issue, argung that it was in legal terms a provider of technical services and not a host. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol(FRANCE – Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW SCI TECH BUSINESS) – RTXVCW9