Comments on: Great Moments in the War Against DMCA http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/11/03/great-moments-in-the-war-against-dmca/ Your daily source for tech culture, internet phenomena, politics, interviews and entertainment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:21:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MeanDean http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/11/03/great-moments-in-the-war-against-dmca/#comment-286 MeanDean Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:15:26 +0000 http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/?p=50#comment-286 Ah yes, Scientology and the DMCA. Moxon & Kobrin, the CoS's law firm in Los Angeles, issued so many takedown notices to sites critical of Scientology that they became known in critic circles as "Avagrams", for the lawyer, Ava Paquette, who was the signing issuer of the notices. I probably received about a dozen myself, when I was active as a Scn critic. (The content I posted is no longer up, thanks to a dimwit at a former ISP who, apparently terrified at receiving an honest-to-Xenu letter from an attorney, provided my PERSONAL INFORMATION to Moxon & Kobrin. As many longtime vocal critics can attest, having the CoS (a) not like you, and (b) have your home address etc. can put a serious crimp in how you live your day-to-day life.) So yeah, the DMCA is poorly-written legislation that creates a "guilty until proven innocent" atmosphere for anyone putting content on the web. Knowing a psycho like Michael Crook had my personal information would make me start spending money on ammunition down at Big Five... Ah yes, Scientology and the DMCA. Moxon & Kobrin, the CoS’s law firm in Los Angeles, issued so many takedown notices to sites critical of Scientology that they became known in critic circles as “Avagrams”, for the lawyer, Ava Paquette, who was the signing issuer of the notices. I probably received about a dozen myself, when I was active as a Scn critic.

(The content I posted is no longer up, thanks to a dimwit at a former ISP who, apparently terrified at receiving an honest-to-Xenu letter from an attorney, provided my PERSONAL INFORMATION to Moxon & Kobrin. As many longtime vocal critics can attest, having the CoS (a) not like you, and (b) have your home address etc. can put a serious crimp in how you live your day-to-day life.)

So yeah, the DMCA is poorly-written legislation that creates a “guilty until proven innocent” atmosphere for anyone putting content on the web. Knowing a psycho like Michael Crook had my personal information would make me start spending money on ammunition down at Big Five…

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