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Jan 25, 2008
Anonymous steps up its war with Scientology — CNET
Jan 24, 2008
Anonymous hackers take on the Church of Scientology — CNET
Feb 5, 2007
'Tom Cruise' missile jokester arrested — CNET
Sep 9, 2003
Hyperlinks remain legal after Scientology defeat — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Hines Source:
CNET The Church of Scientology has lost a courtroom battle to compel a Dutch writer and her Internet service provider to remove postings from a Web site, in a ruling that keeps hyperlinks to copyrighted material legal.
On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. The Church of Scientology has repeatedly pursued legal action in the Netherlands against the writer, Karin Spaink, and her ...
Sep 8, 2003
Scientology loss keeps hyperlinks legal — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Hines Source:
CNET The Church of Scientology has lost a courtroom battle to compel a Dutch writer and her Internet service provider to remove postings from a Web site, in a ruling that keeps hyperlinks to copyrighted material legal. On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. The Church of Scientology has repeatedly pursued legal action in the Netherlands against the writer, Karin Spaink, and her ...
May 1, 2003
Anti-Scientology site spurs award — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET A critic of the Church of Scientology, Andreas Heldal-Lund, has received a human rights award for maintaining his Web page despite repeated legal attacks from church officials. Heldal-Lund, a Norwegian citizen who operates the Operation Clambake Web site, is the fourth recipient of the Leipzig Human Rights Award. Church of Scientology officials have tried to silence Heldal-Lund by, among other things, asking Google and the Internet archive site Archive.org to pull links to his site, claiming that material on its pages ...
Mar 3, 2003
Big Brother and your browser — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Declan McCullagh Source:
CNET WASHINGTON–The U.S. Justice Department is experimenting with an Internet crime-fighting technique that raises novel legal, technical and privacy concerns. The tactic: domain name forfeiture. In two separate cases last week, the Justice Department seized domains for Web sites that it claimed were engaging in illegal activity. The first set of domains were allegedly used to sell drug paraphernalia such as bongs and marijuana cigarette holders. Now visitors to PipesForYou.com, 420now.com, OmniLounge.com and ColorChangingGlass.com are greeted by this hair-raising alert: "By application ...
Oct 24, 2002
Free speech feels Net copyright chill — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET Rick Sanchez thought the bright folks at Mensa International would agree that his Pets or Food Web site was a joke. He was sure that the site's offers of "freshly clubbed" frozen baby seal meat and "a dozen Doberman flank steaks for a Super Bowl party" were a dead giveaway. If not, then surely the site's frisky description of fictional CEO Sydney Zwibel–a "former animal disposal technician," Mensa member and alternate member of the 1984 Olympic Fencing Team–smacked of parody. So ...
Sep 24, 2002
Net archive silences Scientology critic — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET Buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, the Internet Archive has removed a church critic's Web site from its system.
The Internet Archive, a site that preserves snapshots of old Web pages and bills itself as "a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form," no longer contains links to archival pages of Xenu.net. Instead, surfers are pointed to a page telling them the site was taken down "per the request of the site owner."
However, Xenu.net ...
Apr 25, 2002
EarthLink's global odyssey // The ultimate ISP survivor faces a crossroads in broadband — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Borland Source:
CNET In 1993, Sky Dayton was "pulling his hair out" trying to get online–so he bought 10 modems and set up his own Internet service provider, named EarthLink a year later. In nearly a decade since then, EarthLink Networks has grown into the country's third-largest ISP, trailing only America Online and Microsoft's MSN. But Dayton is still frustrated. "We're approaching a tipping point where you have to have broadband–where if you don't have it it's like not having running water," said the ...
Mar 21, 2002
Google pulls anti-Scientology links — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Loney Source:
CNET Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine. The popular search company said it removed the links after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the site Xenu.net, said in a Usenet posting that the complaint demanded that Google take down a large number of references to ...
Jun 3, 1999
Scientology subpoenas Worldnet — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Goodin Source:
CNET Raising new issues about anonymity on the Net, the Church of Scientology is invoking a law passed last year to force AT&T to disclose the identity of an Internet service subscriber who allegedly infringed the church's copyrights online. Scientology's Bridge Publications, which four years ago helped to forge new law when it sued Internet service provider Netcom, claims the anonymous author "made two unauthorized, verbatim Internet postings" of the church's copyrighted works on the "alt.religion.scientology" Usenet group. Invoking a provision in ...
May 20, 1999
Amazon to restore Scientology title — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Troy Wolverton Source:
CNET Responding to customer criticism, Amazon.com today said it will restore a book critical of Scientology to its list of available titles. Amazon spokesman Bill Curry said Amazon removed Jon Atack's A Piece of Blue Sky from its virtual bookshelves in February after being advised that sales of the book were subject to a cease-and-desist order in the United Kingdom. Curry said the order stemmed from a ruling barring distribution of the book in that country because of defamatory language. Amazon has ...
Mar 30, 1999
Scientologists settle legal battle — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Courtney Macavinta Source:
CNET The Church of Scientology International has settled a long-standing legal battle to repossess about 2,000 unpublished and copyrighted documents and keep them from being accessed by computer users in the future. Under a settlement reached in a U.S. district court earlier this month, a Colorado-based nonprofit group called FACTNet is permanently enjoined to pay the church $1 million if FACTNet is found guilty of future violations of church copyrights. FACTNet, started by former Scientologist Lawrence Wollersheim, also promised to return all ...
Sep 9, 1998
Scientology loses copyright round — CNET
Jan 29, 1998
Scientologists in trademark disputes — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Courtney Macavinta Source:
CNET The Church of Scientology International is accusing two Web sites of trademark violation and is taking action to stop it. The church has threatened to see legal recourse against a Colorado Web site owner if he continues to run a site called "scientology-kills.net," which also sells T-shirts bearing the same phrase. In the second dispute, the church sent a letter to Tilman Hausherr of Berlin on Monday telling him to remove altered Scientology graphics from his CompuServe home page, which he ...
Dec 30, 1996
Unamailer explains bombings — CNET
Nov 6, 1996
Piracy campaign revamped — CNET
Aug 31, 1996
"Remailer" service shut down — CNET
Type: Press
Source:
CNET A Finnish operation that allowed people to send anonymous email on the Internet was shut down after accusations it was used for child pornography. Johan Helsingius, who has operated the electronic message relay service since 1993, denied the pornography allegations but said he had received calls from people accusing him of pedophilia, according to the Associated Press. Helsingius called the end of his service "a blow for Internet users and computer privacy," and said the charges are "not even possible." About ...
Aug 5, 1996
No answers in Scientology case — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rose Aguilar Source:
CNET Many Internet legal analysts are disappointed by an out-of-court settlement between Netcom and the Church of Scientology because now they'll have to wait for another case to come to light before a court sets a firm precedent on Internet access providers' liability for online copyright infringement. Netcom and the church announced an out-of-court settlement Sunday in a copyright infringement dispute dating from December that many expected to set a precedent for Internet service providers' liability. The case involved church allegations that ...
Aug 4, 1996
Netcom and Scientology settle — CNET
Type: Press
Source:
CNET As part of a settlement with Religious Technology Center, Netcom has posted a protocol in which the company states it will block access to material pending an investigation into claims of copyright infringement. Netcom's protocol states that upon receiving a complaint Netcom "will temporarily remove or deny access to the challenged material, to protect the rights of all involved." "If Netcom concludes that complainant has raised a legitimate claim, it will continue to deny access to the challenged material," the protocol ...
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