Posted on 01/03/2024 5:53:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
A rush of people jumping online to see a list of names associated with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday crashed the web page of a Bay Area nonprofit.
The documents, unsealed Wednesday afternoon as part of a December court order, are expected to include hundreds of names — including those of accusers and some public figures. A viral link to the unsealed documents goes to CourtListener.com, an archive of court data run by the Oakland-based nonprofit Free Law Project.
But when SFGATE checked the site, it appeared as if the crush of visitors had overwhelmed it.
“Hmmm, something didn’t work, sorry :/,” CourtListener’s page said. “This usually happens when we are doing maintenance or our server is overloaded. Usually things are fixed within a few minutes.”
By 5 p.m., Free Law Project had fixed the CourtListener site, and the documents were available for download.
The nonprofit organization posted on social media Wednesday afternoon that the site was getting “utterly hammered” by interest in the Epstein documents. Misinformation has spread that the list would include salacious reports on prominent businesspeople and politicians, but the Associated Press reported that many of the names in the list unsealed Wednesday, including French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, were already publicly linked to Epstein.
Free Law Project’s website describes CourtListener as the organization’s “flagship project,” home to a database of judicial information used in a sweeping Wall Street Journal investigation on financial conflicts in the judiciary, as well as to an archive of Federal Circuit Court oral arguments.
“On a good day, CourtListener gets tens of thousands of new items added to it, it sends hundreds of alerts to users monitoring cases or search terms, and it serves over a million people,”
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This is about Hillary, right?
Correct. So use a VPN!!
there is no reason for their site getting “hammered”
they should have seeded a torrent, and put a link on their site.
maybe even paid for some AWS capacity.
I am sure the torrents will be up already, but I would only use one linked to by the original site.
not that I really care to read it, won’t tell me anything I didn’t already know.
SF. Ha. More than likely the leftists checking (hoping) to see if Trump was there and afraid to see if a lot of the list were Democrats instead.
This is going to be a big NothingBurger and it‘s only January 3🤣😀😀😀😀
It’s San Francisco, clearly it’s pelosi.
Probably people who are looking for their names.
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