It does cost the companies money for bandwidth. In fact one of the issues that Wikileaks has had is paying it's bills. Apparently to ISP's getting paid is more important than national security. Any site hosting the material doesn't have much legal claim if it's attacked either to say the least, so they are more of an uncomfortable client than one like the RIAA, who has to pay for a lot of countermeasures.Originally Posted by AdamG
Speaking of which, these files all enjoy copyright outside the USA, and inside the USA they're classified. The NATO documents I thought were supposed to be classified in NATO participating countries, but apparently those markings are meaningless. In any event it shouldn't matter who the complaining party is in a copyright case that much. If it works for stolen tracks of Metallica one would think a law could work on stolen classified documents.
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