Well, they'd better get on it, since they're already losing.

A revolution without dancing...is a revolution not worth having.

tojo2000 wrote:

pALEPHx wrote:

Well, they'd better get on it, since they're already losing.

Either this has been resolved already, or the guys at Xenu.net are being big drama queens.

Umm, might want to check the freshness date on that article...

Stephen Hawking at his secret anti-Scientology training camp orbiting the Earth.

pALEPHx wrote:

square wrote:

Umm, might want to check the freshness date on that article...

Indeed. I should have known by the vast number of Diggs/Reddits/etc in the SERPs that it was stale ol' bullshit. At least it may serve to show that it happened, even if--as Tojo pointed out--the decision's been reversed.

I suppose Google finally realized they had more money and market penetration than the Church could ever hope for.

Still, I have to go with Tojo on the choice of voice synthesizers. I wrote this morning at my own site, "Perhaps, it'll be Stephen Hawking doing a drive-by on the Travolta residence." It will be a brief history of crime.

Actually the way I understand the DMCA take-down rules, Google really didn't have a choice.  Basically the way it seems to work is the copyright holder sends a notice to the site owner and they aren't liable as long as they take it down right away.  The site owner doesn't really have the ability to verify all copyright claims.  The little-known second half of this, though, is that you can be punished (via fines) heavily if someone can show that you issued a take-down request for non-copyrighted works.  Of course, as the xenu.net folks pointed out, that means that the person whose content is being taken down needs to have lawyers in order to fight it.

It reminds me of the saga of the law professor whose YouTube clip demonstrating the copyright notice from the SuperBowl airing was repeatedly taken down due to people not being familiar with the various provisions of the DMCA.

That's a COS press release you're reading and it'll never get to court.

Where's Vinnie Barbarino in all this, is what I want to know.

pALEPHx wrote:

choad wrote:

Where's Vinnie Barbarino in all this, is what I want to know.

Still doing everything in his power to avoid the allure of coke and cock, I presume. Have you ever told a lie so big that everyone you knew thought it was the truth, you'd lost track of when you started believing it yourself, and you had to follow it down into your own private hell? That's what happens when you buy into a cult. In his case, literally. It isn't just the money lost, but the seemingly irrevocable acts of public commitment.

He'll crash that plane of his, one of these days.

When Travolta lived in Santa Barbara during the 80s before the Scientologists captured him, it was common knowledge he spent a lot of time at a gay bar called The Pub.

choad wrote:

Where's Vinnie Barbarino in all this, is what I want to know.

Flying the fraternal skies.



edit: whoops

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whosasailorthen wrote:

You coulda just clicked on the picture I posted. *smile*

He also could've been snogging Scott Caan, but we don't all get what we intended, do we.