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Friday, March 22, 2002

Google v. Scientology - The DCMA Wars
6:59:31 AM

Google Relists Operation Clambake Google Relists Operation Clambake

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 21, @09:41PM
from the squeaky-wheels dept.
DarkZero writes: "After almost every tech site and individual geek banded together to either carry the story about Google's delisting of Operation Clambake or flat-out protest it, Google has apparently relisted Xenu.net. Searches for 'xenu' and 'scientology' list Operation Clambake as the first and fourth results, respectively. The search for "scientology" also lists a story from C|Net about Google delisting Operation Clambake, as well as a protest ad from a Kuro5hin reader (oc3)." [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
6:56:13 AM

Immediate Call to Action: Google Caves. Meeting this afternoon in Mountain View, California to search for Xenu information. [Linux Journal]
6:53:53 AM

Google pulls anti-Scientology links. The popular search service removes links to pages that hold material copyrighted by the Church of Scientology, underscoring potential conflicts between the DMCA and free speech. [CNET News.com]
6:50:25 AM

Google Yanks Anti-Church Sites. Google used to include sites critical of the Church of Scientology. Now it doesn't, because Scientology is claiming copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
6:49:18 AM

Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website

Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website

Posted by michael on Thursday March 21, @09:00AM
from the legal-innovations dept.
touretzky writes: "Scientology has used a DMCA threat to force removal of a large number of pages from xenu.net from the Google search engine. Some of the pages Scientology is objecting to contain no material owned by the cult; other pages are clearly covered under "fair use". Scientology's ongoing abuse of Google is documented here. Of course, the Norwegian owner of xenu.net could write a counternotification letter, but that would require him to agree to the jurisdiction of a US court in a district of Scientology's choosing." The posting by Heldal-Lund agrees with what we can observe at Google - the pages listed in the posting aren't in Google's database, though many others are. Update: 03/21 14:16 GMT by M: Paul Wouters of xtdnet.nl (which hosts xenu.net) submits this page documenting Scientology's attacks against the ISP for continuing to host xenu.net. [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
6:47:33 AM