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To download it, you (basically) are also sharing the file. It's as illegal as mirroring wikileaks.
by zbanks 15y ago
To download it, you (basically) are also sharing the file.
It's as illegal as mirroring wikileaks.
- GiraffeNecktie 15y agoOh, you mean like these? http://boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-blocked-bu.html http://boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-blocked-bu.html
- derrida 15y agoMirroring Wikileaks is not illegal, First Amendment... highest law in the land.
- rabidsnail 15y agoCopyright is an exception, unfortunately.
- mquander 15y agoThe government's PR branch has really done a number on you. It's absolutely legal to host or mirror Wikileaks, under any reasonable interpretation of the law; remember that the only way that the government can dig up a case on Assange is to try to label him as a co-conspirator in directly obtaining the information. Just distributing the material is protected -- it's the same thing that newspapers do all the time. EDIT: On reflection, I shouldn't sound so confident, because I'm not a lawyer. But that's my understanding.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoIt does seem to be legal, for now. That doesn't mean that the US government is unwilling to, say, question you every time you fly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_and_Detainment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_a.... (Note that Jacob was more involved than simply running a mirror, though.)