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WikiLeaks Threatens Its Own Leakers With $20 Million Penalty
(According to the story, Wikileaks views the leaked material as their corporate property and any unauthorized “leak” will result in a 20 million dollar lawsuit for infringement on their property rights. yeah Greenwald, they are a legitimate whistle blower site. How could I have misjudged them so… ಠ_ಠ )
from Wired
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now makes his associates sign a draconian nondisclosure agreement that, among other things, asserts that the organization’s huge trove of leaked material is “solely the property of WikiLeaks,” according to a report Wednesday.
“You accept and agree that the information disclosed, or to be disclosed to you pursuant to this agreement is, by its nature, valuable proprietary commercial information,” the agreement reads, “the misuse or unauthorized disclosure of which would be likely to cause us considerable damage.”
The confidentiality agreement (.pdf), revealed by the New Statesman, imposes a penalty of 12 million British pounds– nearly $20 million — on anyone responsible for a significant leak of the organization’s unpublished material. The figure is based on a “typical open-market valuation” of WikiLeaks’ collection, the agreement claims.
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