Groups file Wikileaks ‘intervene’ motion
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Wikileaks allowed people to post corporate and government documents they believe expose wrongdoing.
It’s in the past tense because this month, Swiss bank Julius Baer filed suit in federal district court against Wikileaks for hosting 14 allegedly leaked documents regarding personal banking transactions of Julius Baer customers.
"Also sued was Wikileaks’ domain name registrar, Dynadot LLC," says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), going on, "On February 15, following a stipulation between Julius Baer and Dynadot, the court issued a permanent injunction, disabling the wikileaks.org domain name and preventing that domain name from being transferred to any other registrar."
However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-Northern California), the EFF, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and Wikileaks user Jordan McCorkle have filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit.
The intervenors, "asked the court for permission to intervene in order to dissolve the injunction disabling the wikileaks.org domain name,"says the EFF, adding:
"At 9:00 a.m. on Friday, February 29, a federal judge in San Francisco will hear arguments regarding a related issue: whether to extend a temporary restraining order aimed at preventing the further distribution of the 14 disputed Julius Baer documents.
"A hearing to address Tuesday’s motion to intervene and subsequent motion to dissolve the domain name permanent injunction has not yet been scheduled."
Also See:
past tense – Wikileaks offline — for the moment, February 19, 2008
EFF – EFF, ACLU Move to Intervene in Wikileaks Case, February 27, 2008
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February 27th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
The site wikileaks.org can still be reached via http://88.80.13.160
I will post this link for every article I find online in order to bypass the court’s unconstitutional efforts to suppress free speech and the exposure of corrupt business and government.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
sarcasm
cyberscan, wait until the court orders some network operator in the USA to inject routes for 88.80.13.0/24 sending all packets to the blackhole in Pakistan
/sarcasm
February 28th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
“The site wikileaks.org can still be reached via http://88.80.13.160”
Very true. In addition the incriminating files are all other the p2P networks.
Less than a day after the news of the unconstitutional court order and bunch of people packed into the wikileaks site in order to download and save the incriminating information that was being sensured. This caused the site to become very slow for few days. I downloaded the entire archive form BT one day after the annoncement. Oh! And It is on Edonkey limewire and mute too.
The judge should try to remove this just from BT good lucke!
This judge is a pathetic retard with no clue.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
cyberscan, wait until the court orders some network operator in the USA to inject routes for 88.80.13.0/24 sending all packets to the blackhole in Pakistan
/sarcasm
But there is others IP address and URL you can use. Beside there is Psiphon and Tor. Unblockable.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
“Swiss bank Julius Baer” and their lawless customers are fucked.