Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks

James Hardine writes "Wikileaks has released a couple of hilarious legal demands over a confidential briefing memo entitled Project Wing — Northern Rock Executive Summary. Northern Rock Bank (UK) collapsed spectacularly late last year on the back of the sub-prime lending crisis and was re-floated by the Bank of England at a cost of over £24bn. The memo was used by the Financial Times, the Telegraph and others. It attracted a number of censorship injunctions, as reported by the Guardian, which only Wikileaks continues to withstand. In their legal demand to Wikileaks, Northern Rock's well-known media lawyers, Schillings, invoke the DMCA & WIPO, claim it'll be 10 years in prison for Wikileaks operators for not following the UK injunction, but then, incredibly, refuse to hand over a copy of the order unless Wikileaks' London lawyers promise not to give it to Wikileaks. Finally they claim copyright and more — on their demands! The letters raise a serious issue about the climate of censorship in the UK, where one can apparently easily obtain a censorship order — a judge made law — that everyone is meant to obey, but no one is meant to know."

Comments

It's obvious.

[Pig Hogger]

All your leaks are belong to us!

Re:billion?

[u38cg]

We have pretty much standardised nowadays on the 1000 million version, primarily because it allows newspaper editors to use the word 'billion' a thousand times more often.

Re:billion?

[greenbird]

so a bilion must be twice a million which is a million million, the words tell you exactly what they mean.

Twice a million is two million. What the hell do they teach in math classes these days anyway?