4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube 658
An anonymous reader writes "From the EFF webpage: 'Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology.'"
First non-anti-scientology post (Score:1, Funny)
Hubbard-approved
Re:It's Simple (Score:5, Funny)
For reasons I do not understand, Xenu and clan seem immune to reaping the consequences of their actions.
Scientology: The Teflon Religion
Re:Quick action (Score:4, Funny)
Déjà vu (Score:2, Funny)
You can't win, Hubbard. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Re:Quick action (Score:5, Funny)
We should handle this like the Romans did. Let the Scientologists plead their case for their "religion" in a Colosseum in front of a jury of their peers*.
*Slight change in programming, "a jury of your peers" will now be played by lions. Enjoy the show!
Re:Bringing down Scientology by (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
Wonder how the Cult of Scientology would respond to someone spamming Scientology members w/ emails containing the text of the OT3 and having a return address of:
LRon@hell.gov
You know, kinda like spoiling the ending of a bad movie for someone who hasn't finished watching it yet?
Drop in the bucket (Score:5, Funny)
... leaving them with 250,000 more to send.
I say go to it. The only way these jokers can know which videos to hit with a DMCA is to watch them. Maybe if they're exposed to anti-CoS messages enough, it'll start to crack through the brainwashing, and they'll free themselves.
So keep posting those videos, folks! It's good karma.
Re:Quick action (Score:2, Funny)
We should handle this like the Romans did. Let the Scientologists plead their case for their "religion" in a Colosseum in front of a jury of their peers*.
*Slight change in programming, "a jury of your peers" will now be played by lions. Enjoy the show!
Yeah, that worked so well the first time... -_-;
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Re:Why? Exactly. (Score:4, Funny)
I have no religion* and they hate me too.
*not strictly true, I told the government I was a Jedi, so I must be.
It's people! (Score:2, Funny)
Soon they'll be breeding us like cattle! You've got to warn everyone and tell them! Scientology is made of people! You've got to tell them! Scientology is people!
Re:isn't this a cult? (Score:5, Funny)
Calling $cientology a cult is like calling the Spanish Inquisition a mild theological disagreement.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
Well then, I say they need to prove that Xenu authorizes them to act on his behalf.
Re:Quick action (Score:2, Funny)
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Also trap their souls with a soul trapping contraption and deposit them on a different planet where their brain washed souls will attach themselves to future life forms.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
The real tragedy is the number of dyslexic diabetics who end up reading that book of theirs.
Re:google cache??? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd like to mod you "+1 Infinite Loop" but I can't find the option.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
'Terrorist group' is a registered trademark. Religious Technology Center who owns this trademark and other trademarks and service marks of Scientology licenses these marks only for use by the Church of Scientology.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:1, Funny)
...or the script of Battlefield Earth.
Re:-½ Funny (Score:3, Funny)
this whole karma thing is overrated ;)
Just say whatever you want and ignore the karma.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
Food, with some you get a cracker, but with others you become crackers.
Re:Why? Exactly. (Score:3, Funny)
"Aside from the above, if Scientology teaches purification of the body, why is Christie Alley so damn fat?"
Too many thetans?
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:3, Funny)
I anal?
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, hell is definitely a subdomain of .gov
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
Not really. If there's one thing we know for sure about Scientologists, it's that their tolerance for bad science fiction is *really* high.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
Not to mention satire, no matter how poor taste it may be - is protected. That gives us the right to mock Xenu and Scientology as much as we want - or heck, why stop there? How about that white Jesus shown in every church I've ever been to? I imagine the dude looked a lot more like Osama bin Laden than any white guy. I think the conversation with Bush would be hilarious -
Jesus: I am not a terrorist!
Bush: with a name like Jesus bin Nazareth, you are obviously a terrorist. All you 'bin' guys are terrorists.
Jesus: bin means 'from' you idiot!
Bush: tell that to Allah you turbanhead
Jesus: but I'm Christian you moron!
Bush: you guys would say anything - I am the DECIDER, and I decide you go to Guantanamo bay - take him away boys!
(feds drag Jesus off)
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:3, Funny)
I think someone needs to make the 'cutoff point' a bit more literal.
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:5, Funny)
I find it rather amusing that an anti-Scientology YouTube video is linked to as a comment on "4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube" :D
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:2, Funny)
Xenu set us up the bomb?
What you say?
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:2, Funny)
I think someone needs to make the 'cutoff point' a bit more literal.
Like, right below the chin?
Re:Legal consequence? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, you might as well ban legal discussions on /. if you do that.
Then our only option will be to have illegal discussions in dark alleys.