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WikiLeaks now running on over 200 hosts around the world

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77 pointszrail13 comments

Classic Streisand Effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I'd hate to think of the legal implications of hosting information the government deems confidential, within the United States. I imagine there will be some fallout over this for people mirroring in the US.

Apparently 355 people have decided it's worth the risk. I would honestly love to host a mirror but I'd be hosting it on an AWS server in Virginia which would almost certainly get my account banned. If I had service outside of the US I would host a mirror in a heartbeat.

I wonder how hard it would be to get a server in a 2nd or 3rd world country.

I've been considering setting up a mirror, and wondering about this is the only reason I haven't yet...

It's tempting because Wikileaks has wisely made it very easy to set up a mirror:

http://wikileaks.nl/mass-mirror.html

I've contacted my VPS host for clarification on their terms of service regarding such a mirror.

If your host responds positively, please send me an email so that I can give them my money, too.

They got back to me: https://forum.ramhost.us/bbs/viewtopic.php?pid=1363#p1363

"In any case, your account wouldn't be suspended over it - we'd simply forward you any takedown notices we might get as usual and give you ample time to respond (you'd only get suspended if you ignored dmca or other takedown notices)."

Very reasonable. So, feel free to give them your money :) <http://www.ramhost.us/?page=virtual-dedicated-server>; (Great deals, but not very many instances available).

Not just a reasonable reply, but also quite timely for a hosting company.

I contacted Linode earlier this afternoon, and they very politely (and reasonably) said no. I'd also like to find a VPS for this. One in a foreign country with no good reason to release their customers' billing information would be extra nice. So far, the most promising one I've found is PRQ -- which already hosts Wikileaks.

DDoS attack on censorship! :P

Distributed Donation of Service

I just found out, Julian was searching for Mirror servers ever since 2001

http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100320888124997&w=...

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