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The Economy of Wikileaks

Posted by kdawson on from the greater-good dept.

StefanBerlin writes "Wikileaks is fast becoming one of the most politically important platforms on the Web. In this interview Julian Assange, the spokesperson, talks about its current situation and about the financial and economic background of Wikileaks. He also talks about why they cancelled the planned auction of the emails of Hugo Chavez's former speechwriter in Venezuela, and about Wikileaks' plans for a subscription model that could possibly solve the site's financial problems once and for all."

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  1. Discussion system like slashdot. by lazy_nihilist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What wikileaks also needs is a good discussion system for each story/leak. That way the audience also can directly participate.

  2. Charging is a very bad idea by bl968 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Once they charge for subscriptions then they become a commercial organization and they would most likely be under the gun for more stringent copyright claims and enforcement. They currently benefit from the non-commercial use provisions of the fair use doctrine.

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  3. Why not Torrent large files? by jonwil · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not make large (in terms of expected bandwidth use) files available through BitTorrent in order to take load off the Wikileaks servers?