Wikileaks tries to sabotage "Fire and Fury" book-sales by publishing pirated version.

[DetlefK]

Link to tweet

* Julian Assange said in an interview with the Guardian that Wikileaks times its publications for maximum political impact.
* When asked about Trump, Assange veered off into a rant how bad HRC is.
* Wikileaks is hosted in Moscow on servers registered to the russian cyber-criminal Peter Chayanov.
* Wikileaks offered Trump's 2016 election-campaign support by sending unsolicited information to Don Jr.
* Wikileaks proposed to Don Jr. to publish something that would hurt Trump in a minor way, so Wikileaks could create an "illusion of impartiality" when attacking Clinton.

And now Wikileaks has published a link to "Fire and Fury".

What does publishing a pirated version of a book have to do with transparency???



And it's NOT an oversight-error. It's fully intentional: The tweet was reported to Twitter-admins for copyright-violation and Wikileaks keeps deleting and reposting the link.

[lamp_shade]

1. None of the pages are numbered.... yet Index references page numbers. Interesting.

[Lee-Lee]

2. A pirated copy of the audiobook was posted here and peop were fine with it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210066333#post23

Some even defended listening to it in pirated form and gave advice how to download it in case it was taken down.

[DetlefK]

3. Great. Now people will no longer think of DU as an impartial news-organization.

[SharonClark]

7. Some people were fine with it but many pushed back.

Some of the excuses of the pro-theft posters were hilarious but I get the idea that they were anxious to read a book that reconfirmed their opinion of Trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. That's not a leak. That's theft. . . . . nt

[Progressive dog]

5. Wikileaks proves, once again,

who they work for and what they stand for.
If Twitter management cared about America, Wikileaks would not be allowed to tweet.

[True Dough]

6. I saw someone speculate online

that Wikileaks may have made some "Trump friendly" edits to the version of the book they published online. Anyone here able to confirm whether that's accurate?