Our initial Questions about who exactly would be funding the WikiLeakS.org project, have still not really been answered.
They are now appealing for $80,000, to keep them online for the next 3 months.
Are their hosting cost really so expensive, or is this money (i.e. $320,000 dollars a year) intended to pay for staff costs as well ?
Wikileaks needs your help!
Wikileaks has no formal funding until late in the year.
Help us urgently raise $80k to cover expenses over the next three
months or our primary operations will shutdown. The mission is too
important to allow this--every day people count on us in a way that
is really quite extraordinary.Wikileaks' reputation for unbowed defence of both human rights
principles and people continues to win accolades, but these prizes,
as nice as they are, do not pay the bills (if you are aware of some
that do, please nominate us for them).Making matters more demanding, this week saw the commencement of a
spectacular three week trial in Stockholm of two of our technical
people by the US recording industry on an indirectly related matter;
PRQ founders also host the censorship resistant file-sharing site,
the Pirate Bay, on which we released the recent Congressional
Research Reports collection, for example.Husband and wife volunteers, Jim and Jennifer McCain have prepared
the following helpful pledge and flyers, thanks to the UK based My
Society. Feel free to roll your own and spread the word in your own
special way:See also:
The two technical people are involved in The Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial. Their defence is that The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker service clearly does not store or serve copies of any illegally copied material, only pointers to pieces files spread out via Peer to Peer networking, on other computers around the world, which they have no way of knowing if they are illegal copies or even actual copies of video or music files.
