Previous Politech message: "Scientology says it's threatened by 'unadulterated cyber-terrorism'" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03917.html --- From: "Dave McClure" <dmcclureat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: RE: Scientology says it's threatened by "unadulterated cyber-terrorism" Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:21:30 -0400 Organization: usiia.org Declan: I wanted to give you my $.02 on this, because the USIIA has on several occasions worked with the Church of Scientology on copyright issues. They first sought out our help when they were forced to sue ISPs in order to get some of their material taken offline. One ISP was put out of business by the legal fees involved, but mostly because he was too stupid to get competent legal advice (which we offered to help him find) or to read the law for himself. This was pre-DMCA, BTW. That's one of the reasons we fought so hard to get the ISP exemptions built into the DMCA. CoS was also helpful in our efforts to craft the first Notification and Takedown agreement with the Software Publishers Association in early 1998, providing input and insights to us. I won't comment on the Church, its doctrines, its teachings or its copyrights -- not our place to do so. But I will vouch that in our dealings with CoS they have been honest, scrupulous about the laws involved and highly sensitive to the operations of ISPs. Regards, Dave McClure USIIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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