| > Oh, and who would provide the tracker? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker#Trackerless_... Hence the magnet links. > Who would make sure there were always seeders? The same people that would find it important enough that this information is distributed. I would certainly dedicate a bunch of bandwidth for something like this. > Who would protect the servers when every person they've ever pissed off comes knocking? The Streisand effect is partial protection here, if you don't want your stuff to be even wider disseminated 'coming knocking' (by which you probably mean lawsuits) would actually increase the stature of the project. As long as you do not accuse without hard proof. But simply spreading the information would be the first move in a game of whack-a-mole that can only be lost. The 'RIAA' clowns are some of the best funded legal teams and they don't seem to be making much headway. A much more serious threat is the threat of overt violence, but that's not something where money will help. Agreed that the service that wikileaks provides is a bargain, but they could be going about their fundraising a lot better than they do. Most of it seems to be along the lines of 'pay up or the data gets it'. And literally holding stuff hostage and pretend-shut-downs is not the right way to make the point. That just plays in to the hands of the people that would like to see wikileaks disappear. |
At the end of the day, if this is what it takes to get Wikileaks back online, then I support it because of that. Because I still very much believe in their mission, and believe that they are unique in what they provide the world right now.