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Google vs. DMCA and Scientology

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Uebergeek writes "This article at the NYTimes (free registration, blah blah) details how google is dealing with the many complaints it gets from organizations when one of its links potentially violates a copyright (or just irritates the copyright's owner). Specifically, it talks about how Google is dealing with the Scientologist's complaints about the list of the Operation Clambake site... now Google features a prominent link to another site that shows the complaint that the Scientologists filed, along with the delisted links."

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  1. Spineless by mccalli · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ...now Google features a prominent link to another site that shows the complaint that the Scientologists filed, along with the delisted links.

    In otherwords, Google has shuffled responsibility for the fight onto someone else.

    If they believe it should be listed, they should have the courage to list it themselves.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  2. Re:Jesus is a monkey!! by jhunsake · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Everyone hide! ... the Scientologists are here!

  3. Re:Scientologits........is a cult. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All religions began as cults. Wether it be a dozen blokes in Palestine raising Lazarus or Buddha sat under a tree. Most religions employ symbolism, the deeper meaning of which is rarely revealed to the lay person. Pearls to swine? Scientology doesn't seem to me to be a religious cult, it has no god. It is more of a personality cult. Like the Manson family.

  4. Googledot dot org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Welcome to Googledot dot!!!!

    Bringing you every single fucking piece of news about Google you can dig up!!

    Can I be a slashdot editor now?

  5. Re:When will it end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?


    For generations you honkeys have put price tags on stuff that wasn't yours to begin with. You cut out a piece of the land from the scenery and say "Get away from there! That's my stuff, not yours!" Big fences and walls guard your stuff from other people who you consider to be thieves. For a while, you honkeys even bought and sold people who (mostly) weren't honkey. Your defense industry owns air space, your celebrities own their reproducible image, your leaders own the roads that you travel on.

    So now your authors own copyrights, your corporations own patents, and your marketing departments own trademarks. Don't act so surprised. Pretty soon your doctors will legally own your DNA, too, and your educators will own your child's ideas.

    There is nothing new here -- it's been going on for years. It's how honkeys have done business for a long time now.

  6. Re:Link to xenu.net by 56ker · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sorry I've seen so much about the xenu.net thing on /. I've grown apathetic towards the whole thing!

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