[FoRK] Wikileaks ...

[Gordon Mohr]

silky wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 5:10 AM, Rob Harley <robert.harley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... is being disabled by registrar in U.S.  Do your bit and visit a mirror
>> linked from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
> 
> it's somewhat amusing that the court order, according to that article,
> leaves the webserver still online, and targets only the DNS, I wonder
> if the judge was aware that it was still accessible after that order?
> (i.e. via ip, as the article states at the bottom).

 From the description in the Wikileaks entry at Wikipedia, it appears 
the  ruling followed from a deal between Bank Julius Baer and the 
Dynadot registrar, to settle a suit brought by the bank.

So the judge wasn't improvising to try to shut anyone up -- just 
agreeing to a specific request by a plaintiff (the bank) to which the 
defendant (the registrar) seems to have acquiesced.

Asking the judge to shut down a site that may not even be operated in 
his jurisdiction would have been another matter entirely.

The bank went for the Wikilinks weakest link, which rolled without much 
of a fight, in a narrow single-jurisdiction victory.

- Gordon