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Dec 1, 1995
alt.scientology.war — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wendy M. Grossman Source:
Wired When computers are seized because they contain allegedly stolen intellectual property, and police pierce the security anonymous remailers,the days of the Net as a cozy, cocktail party are over. Welcome to a flame war with real bullets. When computers are seized because they contain allegedly stolen intellectual property, or the security of anonymous remailers is pierced by police, alt.scientology.war the days of the Internet as a cozy, private, intellectual cocktail party are over. Welcome to mortal combat between two alien cultures ...
Nov 28, 1995
Scientologists claim victory in Internet copyright lawsuit — CNN
Oct 4, 1995
Hunting rabbits, serving spam: The net under siege — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Prendergast Source:
Denver Westword News The growing popularity of the Internet has spawned discussion groups that offer something for just about everyone, from lovers of Jean-Luc Picard (try alt.sexy.bald.captains) to haters of a certain children's television program (alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die) to obsessives consumed by politics, computer lore, comic books or the hidden messages embedded in a single rock song (alt.meter-maid.lovely.rita). Few newsgroups, though, have drawn the kind of following now evident on alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s.), an international debating circle concerning the Church of Scientology.
Always controversial, in recent months ...
Oct 4, 1995
Stalking the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Prendergast Source:
Denver Westword News IN THE ONLINE BRAWL OVER SCIENTOLOGY, INTERNET USERS DISCOVER THAT VIRTUAL REALITY BITES BACK.SHOWDOWN IN CYBERSPACE THE BATTLE OVER SCIENTOLOGY'S SECRETS IGNITES A HOLY WAR ON THE INTERNET.
Lawrence Wollersheim's hands shake as he reads his notes, ticking off the damage done to his computers. Surrounding the 46-year-old Boulder resident is a cluster of reporters and, beyond that, a ring of glowering, dark-suited men (and one woman wearing a clerical collar), all packed into a hallway of the federal courthouse in ...
Sep 14, 1995
Scientologists Lose a Battle on the Internet — New York Times
Aug 26, 1995
Scientology critics claim harassment for using Internet — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jennifer Bjorhus Source:
Seattle Times As the Church of Scientology battles a band of cyberspace dissidents - seizing computers and papers from the homes of vocal online critics in the past two weeks - local defectors charge they are being harassed for speaking out against the church. Robert Vaughn Young and Stacy Young, longtime staff members who left the Church of Scientology in 1989, complained to police that Scientologists have picketed their house in West Seattle at least five times in the past two weeks. They ...
Aug 19, 1995
Church in cyberspace // Its scared writ is on the net, its lawyers are on the case — Washington PostMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marc Fisher Source:
Washington Post It was 9:30 and Arnie Lerma was lounging in his living room in Arlington, drinking his Saturday morning coffee, hanging. Suddenly, a knock at the door — who could it be at this hour? — and boom, before he could force anything out of his mouth, they were pouring into his house: federal marshals, lawyers, computer technicians, cameramen. They stayed for three hours last Saturday. They inventoried and confiscated everything Lerma cherished: his computer, every disk in the place, his client ...
Feb 22, 1995
Scientology critic loses court bid — Los Angeles Times (California)More: thecia.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Abrahamson Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) SAN JOSE - A Glendale critic of the Church of Scientology lost a round in federal court Tuesday as a judge declined to lift an order barring him from transmitting copyrighted religious texts onto the Internet.
The order remains in effect against Dennis L. Erlich, a former church member.
But U. S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte rejected arguments by church lawyers and lifted restraining orders against a North Hollywood computer bulletin board operator and a San Jose-based Internet access supplier, ...
Feb 14, 1995
Scientologists sue, seize critic's computer files — Los Angeles Times (California)More: thecia.net , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Abrahamson ,
Nicholas Riccardi Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Glendale: Church representatives with court order remove files allegedly containing copyrighted texts from home of outspoken critic.
BYLINE: ALAN ABRAHAMSON and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
GLENDALE – Led by a lawyer brandishing a federal court order and backed up by a pair of off-duty police officers, a handful of Church of Scientology representatives searched a Glendale house Monday and seized hundreds of computer disks and files allegedly containing copyrighted religious texts.
In the latest twist to a fractious dispute that ...
Jan 3, 1995
Scientologists Fight To Zip Some Loose Computer Lips — Seattle Times
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