Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline 163
DragonFire1024 writes "Wikinews.org — The Wikileaks website, which publishes sensitive and censored material submitted by anonymous contributors, has experienced unprecedented levels of Internet traffic today through public interest. This interest has caused the website's servers to be unable to meet the enormous demand of over 164 gigabytes of download traffic within twenty-four hours, leading the site to be temporarily inaccessible."
Re:Not offline? (Score:4, Insightful)
How ironic... (Score:2, Insightful)
So, if you're afraid, but only slightly, please rehost the video. Anyone got a link to it so that I can mirror it on my own site?
Re:Not offline? (Score:4, Insightful)
But Wikileaks simply succumbed to an overwhelming demand of visitors. This news story is like saying "Look! People are actually reading shit about the Tibetan protests rather than trying to find out who Paris Hilton's new best friend is going to be! Oh my god!"
Not offtopic (Score:4, Insightful)
I think the Slashdot editors might have been looking for a story about Fitna that doesn't explicitly mention Fitna in the summary, since they no doubt wish to avoid getting some death threats of their own.
Re:How ironic... (Score:4, Insightful)
Whereas I do not doubt that everything shown in the film has happened, I do think that it is highly selective; someone trying to stir up trouble against Muslims.
There are people on both sides of this who are stirring the pot. I do not think that most muslims are seeking Jihad, however some are. I don't know enough about it. It is an error to put all muslims into one group, there are many different sects with different views, some benign, some not so.
Whatever you do: don't take everything at face value.
Re:How ironic... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Spread the word. (Score:3, Insightful)
The website would post a torrent, and would also seed the torrent. If nobody else seeded it then the website would end up uploading the file to anybody who asked for it - which is no worse than what they'd otherwise end up doing. However, as soon as more than one person starts downloading at the same time you get automatic load-distribution, and if anybody sticks around and seeds then you get even more bandwidth.
All you need is a decent daemon that will take a file and create a torrent and track it and seed it, and restore all this stuff anytime the daemon is restarted. I can't find anything that does exactly that...
Re:Pfft, Wikileaks (Score:3, Insightful)
WikiLeaks is awesome as it is - a place where anyone can put up any document, free of any fear that they might be tracked down. Why you think that that makes anything true on there, I have no idea. Seriously. Were you born just yesterday?