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WikiLeaks has asked the Web community to open mirror sites so it cannot be downed or censored and said Monday that 355 new sites are already up.

"Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack," the group said on its website. "In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help."

The site is asking people with Unix-based servers and excess hosting resources to answer its call. WikiLeaks' entire website "should not take more than a couple of GB at the moment," it said.

Mirror sites are additional websites that have all of the same information as the original site and are updated automatically each time the original site adds new content. WikiLeaks hopes the new sites can ensure the survival of the mass of leaked documents, videos and other data it has collected and published.

Last Friday, the controversial website could not be accessed through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after EveryDNS.net terminated its domain name service over repeated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against WikiLeaks. The U.S.-based service provider said it did provide prior notice. The move came just days after Amazon Web Services stopped hosting WikiLeaks on its servers for breaking user rules saying that websites must use their own content and not carry data that might injure others. The U.S. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman, had also asked Amazon to stop hosting the controversial website.

WikiLeaks has come under fire for publishing classified U.S. documents, including videos and documents from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as sensitive cables sent between U.S. embassies and the U.S. State Department. WikiLeaks continues to post the cables.

WikiLeaks has faced a number of DDOS attacks, designed to knock out access to the website. WikiLeaks.org appears to still be offline. New links to WikiLeaks from the company's Twitter feed are going to WikiLeaks.ch.

Netcraft, which tracks web attacks, shows in a series of graphs that WikiLeaks.org has been down since last Friday.

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Thanks for the info. :)

If everything else fails, we have filesharing. :D

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Ah yes this is the refreshing news I was looking forward to. :) reading this has made my day, week, and year. lol

They are up to 507 mirrors now. (Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 507 sites (updated 2010-12-06 14:02 GMT))

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Wow. They are growing nicely. :D

Let me note that this is not something against US or any other country. It's against the wrong doings. Its for truth and free speech.

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I'm down with WikiLeaks, don't get me wrong.

But for governments to function properly in this f*d up world they need a certain amount of privacy when it comes to foreign relations. A member of the UN needs to be able to say 'A' to Israel one day and 'B' to Palestina another day in order to get them closer together.

Fixing a (human) mess can only be done by 'lying', or bending the truth (or rather: your opinion at a certain time), whichever you prefer.

Having said that I don't think most current governments are capable of doing such a thing anyway, so WikiLeaks won't screw the world up anymore than it already was.

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I agree about the diplomacy needing a certain amount of privacy :)

This effort troubling wikileaks is kind of peculiar. Free press does not seem to count when it comes to them. On a related note:

Payback: Bank That Froze Julian Assange's Bank Account Has Now Been Taken Down By Hackers

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A group of Internet activists who call themselves Operation Payback launched attacks on Monday on the Web sites of PayPal and a Swiss bank, which both froze WikiLeaks-related accounts.

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I just find the whole ordeal exciting and unpredictable. :D it's like a real life turn based strategy game. payback is a bitch, lol.

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Wow. I think Anonymous is taking harsh/kiddish actions here. Even I'll love to DDoS them. But does it makes sense this time? It's more like giving chance to wrong people to complain about you.

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It is my understanding that they are of 4chan origin. As wrong as it is to block WikiLeaks as wrong it is to DDos those banks I feel. But they for sure feel important now.

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Yup, they are part of 4Chan. I say lets fight for the right and rights. But DoSing everyone doesn't seem a great idea to me. They should stick to a place where it impacts the most.

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Taking down the bank is a nice move, the bank is not allowed to discriminate like this (as Assagne hasn't been convicted of anything, yet, he is equal to anyone else).

The only thing about this repeated DDoSing is that the people in power probably don't even get it... It's a protest, not mischief (obviously there's people who just do it for mischief).

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isn't it ironic...

Amazon bans Wikileaks from using their servers

Next the same information is being sold on Amazon

I'm getting an error, maybe they deleted whatever it was. What was it?
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isn't it ironic...

Amazon bans Wikileaks from using their servers

Next the same information is being sold on Amazon

I'm getting an error, maybe they deleted whatever it was. What was it?

it's still there,

here is the snap

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WikiRebels – The Documentary

Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it!

From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.

Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version - Openleaks.org!

Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the internet?

Video is available until 13.12.2010 22.59 GMT

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