For rolling news outlets Wikileaks has been a dream come true with thousands of US embassy cables dribbling out titbits of sensitive information and providing new headlines on a daily and even hourly basis.
But for the US government, the revelations are less welcome.
The site has become its bete noire and after making its displeasure clear, US firms that have dealings with it have been quick to turn their backs.
The troubles began for Wikileaks when Amazon which hosted its servers in the US, withdrew services saying the site was breaking its terms and conditions.
They continued when EveryDNS, the domain name firm which allowed the Wikileaks.org address to be translated into an IP address, withdrew services.
Without it, the .org site was effectively shut down.
EveryDNS said that it had terminated services because web attacks aimed at Wikileaks "threatened the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure which enabled access to almost 500,000 other websites".
But despite losing many links in its supply chain, Wikileaks remains defiantly online.
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