Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline

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:Spread the word.

[phoenixwade]

Which is another way of saying, Mirroring.

Which is another way to say "Needs Mirroring" What I find interesting is the Slashdot effect exceeded the Slashdot effect.... In other words, Wiki-rumors, it's not just for geeks anymore....

Re:Wrong setup

[FudRucker]

a daily text file (wikileaks-29-march-2008.txt) that is easily read on every platform/OS sent out as a bittorrent? like an electronic newspaper where everybody is the paperboy...

Re:Spread the word.

[gbjbaanb]

or .. needs bittorrent. Don't wikileaks host very large documents on their site? surely transferring that load to everyone else makes sense, not only because it reduces the load but also spreads the actual documents.

Re:How ironic...

[xtracto]

I just saw the video (downloaded from Wikileaks), and I can tell you that from what I saw there, and from what I have read, it seems to me that Islam is a really fucked up religion. And this time I mean the religion, not the church. The religion is what? 300 hundred years old? still thinking in stoning women for prostitution or whatnot?

As you said, you just can not "solve" the differences between Islam believers and the western society. Because for them, solving means that all of us convert to Islam. Some people (in Europe mainly) believe that the solution is to "integrate" Islamist better in the society, but shit, then you have the killer of Theo van Gogh, who was Islamist and comnplete Netherlands citizen (and it seems he was very succesful).

I say we take all the Scientologists, put them in their ship and take them to a trip through West Asia so they can confront to the equally crazy Islamist haha.

Re:Conspiracy theorys

[Ryukotsusei]

DDoS anyone?

Re:This is largely due to Fitna

[mixmatch]

For those who care to know, the term Islamist, when used in such a context, is generally accepted to refer to religious activists. Most of these activists claim to be Muslims yet do not act according to the laws of Islam. Now you people out there could either help educate misguided Muslims and misinformed non-Muslims in this regard, or you could go on talking stuff about Islam that has nothing to do with the religion and cannot be found anywhere in its authenticated texts.

-Yousuf

I don't know what exactly you mean by the term "you people", but if you are referring to us non-Muslims, I'm quite confused. Are you saying we should be telling "misguided Muslims" about their own religion and what it does and does not teach? How is that even possible when I don't know Arabic and therefore am not worthy to even know what is in its "authenticated texts"? I'm not trying to inflame, but I would also genuinely like to know why such a peaceful and non-contentious religion, such as can be found in the laws of Islam of which you speak so highly, seems to breed the violence that can be found in nearly every country of the world where large groups of Muslims interact with Western culture? I'm not really interested in the words of a book, but rather in the actions of the people who claim to follow it. Maybe I'm horribly blind and misdirected, but every time I see a situation where a Muslim person/community could become offended, I see a violent reaction. What do you propose we do to redirect an entire culture? How are we supposed to "educate" them?

Re:Spread the word.

[Danny Rathjens]

Perhaps there is an ethical concern regarding the fact that if you distribute via a torrent then the downloaders also become distributors of the content.

With the kind of material involved it could open up the "distributors" to repercussions in their home countries much more serious than those regarding copyright infringement; e.g. repercussions involving imprisonment, harassment, just being added to the wrong list, or even death in some places for treason.

"Interest"?

[Arancaytar]

There are almost as many people who don't want Wikileaks online as people who want to see it - and the former are vastly more powerful.

Surely the possibility that this is an attack rather than "interest" has crossed some people's minds? And if there is strong evidence that it isn't, why the hell isn't that evidence in the summary?