I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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