Felix Stalder on Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:53:17 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Leaked material as evidence in court cases |
Like everyone else, I lost track of the many Wikileaks related events. There are simply too many of them. Which is probably a healthy thing, since it takes the focus away from Wikileaks. This little snippet from The Guardian [1] indicates that the material is, indeed, making its way into the court system as *evidence* of sorts. And, who would have guessed, it's deep sea explorers who appear to be the first here. > Deep-sea explorers have introduced a WikiLeaks release into a legal > battle with the Spanish government over sunken treasure. A cable > published last month revealed the US state department had offered to > help Spain against Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, who found > 17 tons of coins in a Spanish galleon, in return for Madrid's help in > returning a painting seized by the Nazis to a US citizen. > > The divers have filed a motion [2] asking the appeal court hearing > the case to require the US government to note its interests. While I honestly don't care about this particulary case, it seem to indicate that the quality of the mainstream media's reporting on Wikileaks is not central to impact the relases can have. [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/06/wikileaks-latest- developments [2] http://tinyurl.com/39slxq8 --- http://felix.openflows.com ----------------------- books out now: *|Deep Search.The Politics of Search Beyond Google.Studienverlag 2009 *|Mediale Kunst/Media Arts Zurich.13 Positions.Scheidegger&Spiess2008 *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org