WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets

Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets by mmaunder on Monday November 29, 2010 @08:06PM (#1952596)

Since ICE is seizing domains who infringe copyright, wouldn't it make sense for all companies to copyright all internal documents and communication immediately, and then claim copyright infringement if wikileaks publishes them?

Even if wikileaks.org can't be seized [I'm not advocating that] wouldn't it give corporations more legal power via the DMCA to be able to claim copyright infringement?

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Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets by dangrossman on Monday November 29, 2010 @08:21PM (#1952641)

1) All those documents are protected by copyright the moment they're produced.

2) The DMCA is a US law, and wikileaks.org's IP is in France. As with Assange, they'll move the operation wherever in the world they need to find favorable laws.

If the force of US law was enough to stop wikileaks it would have been gone long ago. Publishing national secrets is a much more intimidating crime than civil copyright infringement, no?

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Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets by jacquesm on Monday November 29, 2010 @09:57PM (#1952851)

That's not all there is to it, Assange has a 1.4G timebomb out there, the passkey to which will likely be revealed when he decides or disappears long enough.

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Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets by jamaicahest on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:59AM (#1953587)

Just for clarity, the EU has a law similar to the DMCA, called the EUCD and it is called the DADVSI in France.

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