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Very first sentence of AWS Service Terms: 1. Universal Service Terms (Applicable to All Services) 1.1. You may only use the Services to store, retrieve, query,
by pilom 16y ago
Very first sentence of AWS Service Terms:
1. Universal Service Terms (Applicable to All Services)
1.1. You may only use the Services to store, retrieve, query, serve, and execute Your Content that is owned, licensed or lawfully obtained by you.
http://aws.amazon.com/serviceterms/ http://aws.amazon.com/serviceterms/
I'm not a fan, but they made those terms for a reason. This is simply Amazon enforcing the rules that they set in place a long time ago. Wikileaks should have read the terms before they signed up.
- forwardslash 16y agoAccording to a Q&A with Assange: "Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assa... I think that the hosting with Amazon was more a PR move than anything.
- abyssknight 16y agoNice catch. This makes more sense, to be honest, than Assange making a mistake as gross as hosting in the US.
- OpieCunningham 16y agoHow do the documents fall under the category of unlawfully obtained? And if they are considered unlawfully obtained (to which I've seen no evidence), would Amazon kick the NYTimes off their servers if the NYTimes hosted the documents there?