WikiLeaks is struggling with money problems 

Money problems at WikiLeaks-founder 

Julian Assange  © AP / Pitarakis

The revelation threatens platform now assumed the money: "The organization makes every day EUR 480,000 debt," said Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange in a press conference.

According to the embassy ground pitches Amazon, Paypal and Mastercard had terminated its cooperation with WikiLeaks. Julian Assange now urgently needs a new effective business model in order to maintain its operations going. "So that we can continue our activities, we need to get this money back in one way or another," said Assange in his statement. Donations alone can the organization do not live in the long run, is the criticism of experts.

Donor-financed operation leads to existence problems

The encyclopedia Wikipedia is the best example of an exclusively financed by donations online platform will eventually not viable. The donations are too irregular to cover the ongoing costs of technology and management.
However, arising purely by donations and funding some advantages: for example, still could WikiLeaks guarantee full independence.

WikiLeaks has become a brand

The key to the continued existence of the platform is therefore the brand. Can WikiLeaks establish itself as a symbol of transparency and democracy, is a merchandise Conceivable strategy to generate in this way for the sale of merchandise sales.
Julian Assange has flown since the break with Amazon also on their servers. WikiLeaks is now dependent on ever-changing external server farms. Would the host platform itself, they could secure by server rental extra income.

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