Whistle-blower site WikiLeaks will be provided with more servers on behalf of the Swedish Pirate Party, the political group campaigns for the legalisation of file sharing.
“The Pirate Party will provide bandwidth and hosting to WikiLeaks free of charge as part of its political mission,” the party said in a statement.
“We welcome the help provided by the Pirate Party,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange also said. “Our organisations share many values and I am looking forward to future ways we can help each other improve the world.”
WikiLeaks has been at the centre of controversy in the past few weeks, after it was attacked by the Pentagon for releasing tens of thousands of classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan.
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