Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case 386
touretzky writes "The Court of Appeal in The Hague today rejected all of Scientology's claims in appeal in Scientology's action against XS4ALL, Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers. As a result,
Karin Spaink's website, which Scientology sought to remove from the Internet based on copyright claims, is entirely legal in the Netherlands. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of which said that linking to material that infringed a copyright was itself actionable. The other ruling said that ISPs that failed to act on credible notification of a copyright violation could be held liable for that. The Appeals Court felt that this was too vague a standard, and thus posed a threat to free speech. More info at ScientologyWatch.org."
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
You knew it was coming... (Score:0, Funny)
Never called what it really is (Score:3, Funny)
They never call it that, but that's what all of the teachings really are. Their basic ideas is that you are the center of the universe, and anything you do to anybody to obtain your goals is OK. And their rituals (with the E-meter) are just as strange. The only reason for giving it a different name is that "Scientology" is able to recruit celebrities, while those same celebrities typically avoid anything with obvious satanic connotations.
(of course the way Bill Gates manages Microsoft often reminds me of Scientology, but that's a separate topic
Wanna know the meaning of scientology? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:A bad decision (Score:4, Funny)
All copyrights are bad except things copyrighted by the GPL.
Scientology (Score:4, Funny)
WELCOME! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Go XS4ALL! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Confidential" nature of religious documents? (Score:3, Funny)
What could be the problem with links? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Confidential" nature of religious documents? (Score:1, Funny)
Re: Philip knew how to treat the Knights Templar (Score:2, Funny)
> Ought to deal with Scientologists the same way. If their work is so secret that they cannot have it published, then perhaps they are consorting with Baphomet too!
Nah, Baphy told them to stuff it. Standards to maintain, kind of thing.
Re:Never called what it really is (Score:2, Funny)
> Scientology = a satanic cult. They never call it that, but that's what all of the teachings really are. Their basic ideas is that you are the center of the universe, and anything you do to anybody to obtain your goals is OK.
How do you know they aren't just politicians instead of satanists?
Re: Suppressed Documents (Score:3, Funny)
> Here is the document that Slashdot removed when COS threatened them with the DMCA: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/Declaration/
Yeah, I can kinda see why they wouldn't want anyone to see that. Out of context it could leave the impression that they were some kind of k00ks or something.
Re:"Confidential" nature of religious documents? (Score:5, Funny)
This is because Christianity has lost it's power base. Remember they used to burn people alive for translating the bible from latin just because doing so allowed the actual doctrine to leak out to ordinary people.
Hidden secrets are common in religions. A cynic might say this is because the stuff whichis most obviously bollocks has to be kept from people who haven't yet been brainwashed into complete gullability, but I couldn't say such a thing or Hastur will ge.....
Once upon a time: slightly offtopic (Score:4, Funny)
On the other hand, you know you're really f*cked when not even the Scientologists want you.
Who is this the work of? (Score:3, Funny)
I can't resist...
"Hmmm, well isn't that special. Posting links to church secrets. Who could be behind this? I just can't imagine who...
Could it be... THETANS?"
Props to the Church Lady :)
Microsoft ad? (Score:2, Funny)
Strange, hmm
Re:"Confidential" nature of religious documents? (Score:3, Funny)
And even if they did, you could always turn the... um, other cheek.