Prosecutors in Naples have charged Mr. Papa with corruption, including the illegal dissemination of information protected by state secrecy in a complex scandal involving the trading of favors by people who prosecutors say are close to members of Mr. Berlusconi's cabinet.
It is our understanding from conversations with representatives from The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel, that WikiLeaks also has provided approximately 250,000 documents to each of them for publication, furthering the illegal dissemination of classified documents.
In 1998, for example, a Bavarian court sentenced a former head of the German subsidiary of CompuServe, an online service, to two years in jail on charges of knowingly facilitating the dissemination of illegal pornographic pictures; the court found that he could have built electronic "firewalls" to prevent the spread of smutty material.
Along with the rapid development and widespread use of multimedia and computer network technologies, various multimedia products such as image, audio, video are increasingly exposed to illegal possession, reproduction, and dissemination.
The presence of swastikas and other Nazi symbols is so pervasive that the game might be viewed as illegal in Germany, where the dissemination of Nazi thought and symbols is banned.
The suit said that the authorities had dipped into a bag of dirty tricks that included illegal wiretaps, office burglaries and the dissemination of inflammatory lies by agents who infiltrated the movement.
Illegal activities included anti-state activists, dissemination of communist ideas, organization of communist groups, etc.
The Russian government made the dissemination of "gay propaganda" illegal 1993.
Although the distribution of child pornography is illegal in Canada, no protections exist against the malicious dissemination of sexual images for adults.
Given the sensational news value of illegal methods, however, engaging in civil disobedience often leads to wide dissemination of a position (Russell, 1998, 635).
