The Week of Leaks Wikileaks has undertaken what’s been called the biggest leak U.S. military information ever: It’s put 90,000 secret documents related to the Afghanistan war up for public scrutiny. Was it treasonous, heroic or just another reminder that war is hell

The DMCA is an abbreviation for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was signed into law in 1998.  Now the big reason most people do no like this law is because it put in place questionable laws about circumnavigating copyright protection for personal backup use or the overall vagueness of the law in general.  However, that really has nothing to do with web hosting – so I will not be discussing this issue today.  The issue we will be talking about is the way the law made it easier for copyright holders to get stolen material off a website that doesn’t have the right to distribute it. Are Web Hosts Protected in DMCA Cases