Re: [dvd-discuss]DMCA and the Church Of Scientology

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

Go check out http://www.xenu.net/ and see....the DMCA has just given them 
new ammo...The CoS has been using copyright law to suppresss first 
amendment speech which is critical of them. Anybody who types out "The 
head of the Galactic Confederation (76 planets around  larger stars 
visible from here) ..." isn't criticising CoS they are performing 
copyright infringement. Now that criticism is being put online they are 
using the DMCA....another stupid consequence of that lamentable law.




"Steve Hosgood" <steve@caederus.com>
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Michael Rolenz wrote:
>              KEY POINTS
> 
>                  Most popular and independent
>                  search engine is not infallable
>                  Digital Millennium Copyright Act
>                  being levered
>                  Anti Church of Scientology website
>                  blamed
> 

How on earth can the Scientologists argue a way to misuse the DMCA so
thoroughly as to get it into a case like this? There's surely no issue of
Google somehow "bypassing a TPM" protecting a copyright work of the
Scientologists is there?

This is a straightforward-looking trademark dispute if it's anything. The
only thing that seems vaguely "digital" about it is that it's a cyberspace
dispute rather than a realworld one.

Or is there more to it?

Whatever, the more sad-git misuses of the DMCA, the better. It will help
reduce the respect given to it - even by judges eventually.

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