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YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos
Ian Lamont writes "YouTube has reposted anti-Scientology videos and reinstated suspended YouTube accounts after receiving thousands of apparently bogus DCMA take-down notices. Four thousand notices were sent to YouTube last Thursday and Friday by American Rights Counsel, LLC. After YouTube users responded with counter-notices, many of the videos were reposted. It turns out that the American Rights Counsel had no copyright claim on the videos, and the group may not even exist, although the text of the DCMA notices have been linked to a Wikipedia editor. While filing a false DMCA notice is a criminal offense, prosecution in these cases rarely comes about."
About time too. They should never have been taken down in the first place. Do no evil!
I fail to see why the story of Scientology is any more or less credible than that of other religions.
Xenu and alien souls... Joseph Smith and the disappearing gold tablets... the resurrection of Christ... they're all dodgy, silly stories. The catholics just had a couple thousand years head start. The thing is, baloney stored for 2000 years is still baloney. It's just really old baloney.
I can find fault with their profit-oriented outlook, their penchant for litigation, and their militant us-against-everybody attitude, but to my understanding they're less than amateurs when it comes violence, slaughter, oppression, and heartless wealth accumulation. If they can pull off three centuries of tyranny they might rise up the ladder a bit, but I doubt they'll even start down that path. Even by the standards of today they are a well-mannered bunch. Scientologists don't suicide-bomb people - they generally attack them using the same system that is abused by countless non-Scientologists.
In the meantime they take money from the gullible, and that just makes them a tiny portion of a vast number of opportunists.