Comments on: Wikileaks domain name yanked in spat over leaked documents

A California judge orders that domain name disabled after a Swiss bank says that confidential documents were posted -- but they've already been mirrored.

[alexgieg]

Censoring

There's an old meme in geek circles: "The Internet sees censorship as damage, and routes around it."

Time and again it's been proven true, and this episode is just another entry in the long list of useless attempts at reverting what cannot be reversed.

Once any piece of information is put on the 'Net, it becomes effectively eternal.

[inachu]

Overly acting judges

The only thing I could deem viable of removal is the judge himself.
There is nothing there that is deemed worthy of removal.

Freedom of speech and whistle blow protection is what this site has and needs.
Just because a few neocons in govt office do not like what is posted does not make it wrong.

[nuckelhedd]

Silly Declan

the (sic) that you use is short for Standard Industrial Classification. The usage you are looking for (all the time) is typed this way [sic] and should be italicised (which this prog [sic] doesn't support. As usual you are wrong wrong wrong. Please try to rise to a level where you are more than just a re-typist of crap.

[Pete Bardo]

R U Kidding?

I should have know better than to read a comment from a nuckelhedd [sic]. Gimme a brake, u can't even spel your own name.

Besides that (sic) is usually capitalized, and regardless of the fact that you knew what he meant-which is the point of communication, isn't it--that's the best you can do to poke at the author?

Get off your high horse for minute, then go get a life.

[bitjack]

Distribute them on Peer-to-Peer

These judges and government personel actually think that they can control information because they have all the guns and all the violence on their side.

Distribute the documents on peer-to-peer networks, and the law loses its power. While they can (because they have the infrastructure of violence via their police and armies) attack centralized targets, they cannot attack information that is thrown into the wind.

[ewoychowsky]

You can't stop the signal

Where's the crew of Serenity when you need them?

[eonodownload]

Then Comcast will block the BitTorrent traffic carrying the document .

Anyone else feel the walls closing in?

[Thomas, David]

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

[Thomas, David]

The Judge

Seems to me the judge has a lot of questions to answer. Anyone
can review the material related to this issue.

[OwlCreekObserver]

I'm certainly no legal expert, but isn't THEFT the fundamental issue here? If I stole your credit cards and passed them along to my friends, all of us would be subject to arrest, right? How is stealing corporate information (or email belonging to a political candidate) any different?

It seems to me that there's a big difference between voicing one's opinion and stealing information.