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4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube

Posted by timothy on from the y'just-don't-get-it-do-ya? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From the EFF webpage: 'Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology.'"

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  1. Re:Legal consequence? by Curtman · · Score: 0, Troll

    legal status as a church. You know, one of those organizations of compassion and love.

    They claim they don't rape the alterboys anymore.

  2. Why? Exactly. by BitterOldGUy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Agreed. I haven't seen anything where this religion or cult or whatever you want to call it has done anything to hurt anyone. Yeah, there are a couple of folks who've accused the church of some things, but it was maybe one or two people of questionable credibility. There's more against the Mormoms (Church of Latter Day Saints), and recently against the Catholics in the US - which has been dealt with in the legal system, the church has been making changes and the Pope apologized.

    And regards to those protesters, I just want to ask what has the Scientologists done to you - personally?

    I have never heard anything where the Scientoloists have a policy of hurting people. Sure, they may use some heavy handed legal techniques, but it's within the legal system and apparently those judges involved thought they had grounds. And as far as charging folks hundred of thousands of dollars to get to a level - so what? It's their money. It doesn't harm anyone. There are folks who voluntarily give that much and more to their church, temple, etc...

    The Church of Scientology isn't even on my list a problem organization. Some people need to get a grip and need to learn how evaluate things better.

  3. Re:Legal consequence? by Khisanth+Magus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since when is youtube an ISP? Why the heck was this even modded Insightful?

    Also...would you like to provide the money they would need to hire people to watch every single video uploaded and then determine if it violates the DMCA in some way? Because without hiring a large amount of people that is extremely impractical. And if they do NOT have the people needed to do this, making them responsible for DMCA violations in videos that are uploaded is retarded at best.

  4. Re:Legal consequence? by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Numbers...

    A few crackpots is a cult, millions of crackpots are a religion.

    Historically, I'd say around 500-600 or so is the cutoff point for cults.

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  5. Re:Legal consequence? by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    This sort of insanity is exactly the reason that "freedom of religion" should not be protected at all: there should be no different level for anyone, just because they choose to label something with the ill-defined term "religion". I wrote a little about this in a previous post.

    As you say, if the conduct is unlawful then they should be dealt with like anyone else. If it is not, then they should suffer no penalty for whatever they choose to believe. Religion simply shouldn't enter the picture here.

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  6. Who cares? by lumpygrave · · Score: 0, Troll

    Okay, so scientology believes in aliens. I don't care. So they swindle and scam and rob people. I don't care. Maybe the conspiracy people are right when they say people have even died from it. Okay. I still don't care. I don't get why people obsess about scientology so much. The only thing lamer than scientology are the people who spend their whole life angry about scientology.