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Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website
touretzky writes: "Scientology has used a DMCA threat to force removal of a large number of pages from xenu.net from the Google search engine. Some of the pages Scientology is objecting to contain no material owned by the cult; other pages are clearly covered under "fair use". Scientology's ongoing abuse of Google is documented here. Of course, the Norwegian owner of xenu.net could write a counternotification letter, but that would require him to agree to the jurisdiction of a US court in a district of Scientology's choosing." The posting by Heldal-Lund agrees with what we can observe at Google - the pages listed in the posting aren't in Google's database, though many others are. Update: 03/21 14:16 GMT by M : Paul Wouters of xtdnet.nl (which hosts xenu.net) submits this page documenting Scientology's attacks against the ISP for continuing to host xenu.net.
Cant we use the DMCA as a religio and ask tax reduction for it.. just like scientology does
(C)2002 Google - Searching 2,073,418,204 web pages and skipping 4,475,243,576 pages under the DMCA
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
What you see here is nothing but lies, and more lies.
Scientology would never condone any of these tactics.
Only a non-scientologist would spread such vicious rumors. I hope they use the DCMA to get defamation removed from this site!
I will alert them at once!
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In an unprecedented move, RAMBUS, Inc. announced a planned merger with the Scientologist movement. "We invest a lot of money in protecting our ideas, and noticed a similar trend with the Scientologists. It only made sense to pool our resources." noted Tom Quinn, VP of Marketing at RAMBUS. As part of the merger, RAMBUS will drop its chip-making division, leaving them only to focus on their legal persuits. The Scientologists will continue their legal efforts to use the DMCA to erase all traces of their existance. Analysts were uncertain what to think of the merger. "What are they going to do? Make holy chips?" was one response heard.
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Note to Scientology Lawyers: I did not explicitly specify which bastards I advocate nuking of. For all you know, the nukification I am endorsing could be the one of three-legged peruvian llamas (oh, how I hate these) and not at all the leaders of the IMO controversial and IMO dangerous cult full of IMO manipulative IMO crooks who IMO abuse the weak-minded by syphoning out their cash (IMHO) and producing god-awful films with stars who manage to IMO ruin their career twice. By assuming that the bastards I am referring to are representatives from the Church of Violentology...er...Scientology (great, now Steve Jackson Games' lawyers will be going after me, too!), you are setting up yourselves to be sued by your own employers for libel.
Seriously, someone should firebomb the Celebrity Center (and by that I could mean Kelly Preston's navel, or John Travolta's ego - hey, you can't physically harm an ego!
IMHO, of course.
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Dubya forgot to mention one member of his "Axis of Evil".
Because of the /. effect xenu.net is now effectively unreachable. Way to go.
Being well balanced is overrated. -- John Carmack
And at a recent "Body, Mind and Spirit" conference in Dublin Ireland there was a very clean looking stand with no indication as to who it was but they were obviously nice people offering "Free Stress Tests". A slightly closer inspection revelead that in fact this was the scienmoroligists and they justed wanted to plug people into the machine. I laughed and laughed and laughed and described my memories of scientoligists to my friends while standing at the edge of their stand. They liked that especially as all I could really remember was the outline of the OT III!
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Hey, you're quoting me. :)
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"Church of Scientology uses DMCA to force Google to remove xenu.net" was the title of my submission.
Scientology, DMCA and Google are all 'hot topics' here on slashdot. How could I refrain from commenting?
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Pimply Henchman: But Sire, we've been trying to get their ISP to remove them. It hasn't worked so far. I fear the task is impossible.
Evil Scientology Kingpin:Fool! We are Scientologists! Nothing is impossible to us! Bring me my trusted cronie, Michael of Slashdot...
Michael enters, and bows before the kingpin
Michael:My Lord.
Evil Scientology Kingpin: Michael, I want you to post a story about Scientology. In it, I want a prominent link to Xenu.net.
Michael: But Sire, why do you encourage negative publicity?
Evil Scientology Kingpin: Not for publicity, Michael, but for The Slashdot effect!. Xenu.net's servers will burst into flames when all of the Slashdot minions click on your little link. When its done, we will threaten to expose our pornographic pictures of CowboyNeal to the world unless the article you write is removed....No lasting negative press, and Xenu.net is finally removed.
Evil Scientology Kingpin laughs maniacally
Michael: It shall be done, my Lord.
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I'm not sure they are more present, they just make the news more because of high profile actions such as this. If someone were to post the entire contents of the Bible, Torah, or Koran, I don't think any Christians, Jews, or Muslims would be offended. In fact, it has already been done countless times.
IMO, the other 'religions' that you refer to actually want people to read their texts to find out more about them. As a Christian, critical thinking is an imperitive part of my belief system and theology. I am passionate about wanting to know the truth. If I hear something in one of my pastor's sermons that I disagree with, I ask him about it. Usually I come to understand his POV, though I still may disagree. He is absolutely fine with my disagreeing. In fact, I would wager that he would be a bit sketical of anyone who agreed 100% with absolutely everything he said.
On a different note, isn't there some way to put Scientology, Microsoft and RIAA against each other? Maybe Microsoft could distribute a pirated song that lambasts Scientology? At least then they could keep each other's legal departments busy for a while?
Disagree with xenu.net? Do something controversial and get it posted on /.
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/. effects kills xenu.net more effectively than any court order ever could
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