A swarm of leaks

摘要

Remember Napster?In July 2001 a court told it to block access to copyrighted music files. But this did not stop people swapping tunes-and Napster returned as a legal subscription service. Similarly, WikiLeaks may die, but leaking will not. An existing rival is Cryptome, founded in 1996 as a part-time "amateur operation" by John Young and Deborah Natsios, two New York architects with libertarian leanings. A new site, not yet named, will start in Germany this month, created by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left WikiLeaks after feuding with its founder, Julian Assange. He says power will be "as distributed as possible" in the new outfit. The rivals differ in their approaches to technology and in their methods.