US Judge bans website

[RL3AO]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hrs0Ffr3bw5jVbtgRxjuEgz836ug

The best part is mirror sites have popped up everywhere in tens of nations. So all this did was give free publicity.

[lurkey]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hrs0Ffr3bw5jVbtgRxjuEgz836ug

The best part is mirror sites have popped up everywhere in tens of nations. So all this did was give free publicity.

The site's database is on the torrent sites, too. Apparently, no one paid attention to the HD DVD decryption key fiasco.

More information from the comments at slashdot.org:

This court order has blocked the Wikileaks.org DNS [wikileaks.org]. But the site is still up and running [xx.xx.xx.xxx] at its IP number, which is xx.xx.xx.xxx .

Spread the word. DNS can be replaced, with some inconvenience, with manual labor.

Note: IP address redacted, but if you want to look at the site, the IP address is in the comments.

[Ptarmigan]

For each site shut down, two new ones pop up.

[lurkey]

I found out why they went after the DNS domain instead of the owners of the IP address.

The DNS domain was the weakest link the plaintiffs could exploit and at least make it appear the site was down. The registrar of the domain name is based in CA. The servers where the site is hosted he IP address are in Sweden and the servers are owned by two founders of Pirate Bay. The bank convinced the judge to force the registrar to longer point http://www.wikileaks.org to the IP address (and servers) in Sweden.

I believe something similar happened to Storm2k, when a registrar messed up domain name registration a while back ago. The Storm2K was still up at the IP address, but http://www.storm2k.org no longer pointed to the IP address.

All the "new" sites, are just domain names that point to Wikileaks' IP address and servers in Sweden.

[lurkey]

Judge reversed his ruling. .. site now available again at http://www.wikileaks.org