WikiRebels - The Documentary - Full

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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use is in favor of fair use. THIS documentary explores the history of WikiLeaks. Have they committed treasonous or patriotic acts? Should they be punished for leaking documents or praised? Watch this documentary and decide for yourself. I am not giving my opinion in order to keep the debate in the comments section free of influence. Just remember to keep your comments clean and respectful, thanks. IS WIKILEAKS A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE INFLUENCE IN OUR SOCIETY? WikiLeaks is an international, online, self-described not-for-profit organization publishing submissions of secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistle blowers. Its web site, launched in 2006 under the Sunshine Press organization, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director. Kristinn Hrafnsson, Joseph Farrell and Sarah Harrison are the only other publicly known and acknowledged associates of Julian Assange. Hrafnsson is also a member of the company Sunshine Press Productions along with Assange, Ingi Ragnar Ingason and Gavin MacFadyen. The group has released a number of significant documents which have become front-page news items. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and corruption in Kenya. In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gun sight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad air strike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public. In October 2010, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organizations. This allowed the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force -- Iraq, including around 15,000 that had not been previously published. In April 2011, WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In November 2010, WikiLeaks collaborated with major global media organizations to release U.S. State department diplomatic cables in redacted format. On 1 September 2011, it became public that an encrypted version of WikiLeaks' huge archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables had been available via Bit-torrent for months, and that the decryption key (similar to a password) was available to those who knew where to look. WikiLeaks blamed the breach on its former partner, The Guardian, and that newspaper's journalist David Leigh, who revealed the key in a book published in February 2011; The Guardian argued that WikiLeaks was to blame since they gave the impression that the decryption key was temporary (something not possible for a file decryption key). Der Spiegel reported a more complex story[21] involving errors on both sides. The incident led to widely expressed fears that the information released could endanger innocent lives. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE FAIR USE ACT: In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (or information freedom) also refers to the protection of the right to freedom of expression with regard to the Internet and information technology. Freedom of information may also concern censorship in an information technology context, i.e. the ability to access Web content, without censorship or restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information UNITED STATES BILL OF RIGHTS: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/print_friendly.html?page=bill_of_rights_transcript_content.html&title;=The%20Bill%20of%20Rights%3A%20A%20Transcription UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights