[ergo98]

Wikileaks has not been charged with any crime anywhere in the world, let alone been found guilty.

At a very minimum wikileaks is distributing copyrighted information without authorization. Technically they can be taken completely down via the DMCA.

Ultimately of course PayPal, Amazon, Mastercard and others don't want to do business with Wikileaks, or anon, or any similar "fuzzy" business. The business doesn't have to be illegal, they can just be a liability business and that's what they are -- only a lot of people spouting a lot of hot air are going to patronize your service because you cater to them, yet a lot of people will leave you because of it.

Nonetheless, the kids will get bored. GUARANTEED the governments of the world are going to introduce anti-DOS legislation that mandates an immediate cutoff of nodes that participate in DOS (and further a cutoff of networks that don't manage DOS attacks originating in their network). That is absolutely inevitable, and honestly is a very good thing.

[michaelchisari]

U.S. Government documents cannot be copyrighted.

[metageek]

There must be some exceptions to this, though, because IRS forms generally come with copyright notices. (Or, at least, they did the last time I did my taxes on paper, which was 5-10 years ago.)

[CamperBob]

That's crazy talk.