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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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21 Oct 2005 10:08:00 PM |
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Ha! ScienTOMogy upsot the morons |
It's been amusingly stupid, I must say. The web site got maybe
100 hits a day and when the Scientology kooks started to threaten,
the web site owner issued a press release containing the crime
syndicate's threats, including details of the syndicate sending
strong arm goons to the web site owner's residence.
Now he gets one million hits a day.
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E news got it right on their update (they actually spoke to me) - look
for the *** area;
"War of Words over Cruise Site
by Joal Ryan
Oct 19, 2005, 4:40 PM PT
The end is near for ScienTOMogy.
The owner of a Tom Cruise-skewering Website that came under scrutiny
from the Church of Scientology for its too-close-for-comfort URL has
agreed to change the Web address.
a d v e r t i s e m e n t
E! News Live Top5 Videos
"He said he would change it, so, we're waiting for him to do that,"
Helena Kobrin, an attorney representing the Church of Scientology, said
Wednesday.
As of Wednesday afternoon, ScienTOMogy.info was still a valid address,
and according to the site, a more popular than ever destination, thanks
to recent headlines over its engagement with Scientology lawyers. But
changes appeared to be in the works. A new URL, registered on Oct. 13,
also was bringing users to ScienTOMogy's vault of Cruise parody videos.
The new Web address? PassionofCruise.info.
Whatever the URL is, though, the site's Glen Stollery doesn't expect
the church of Scientology to be appeased. "Rest assured," Stollery said
Wednesday night, "they'll still be pursuing me."
The matter of Scientology versus ScienTOMogy began in September, when a
lawyer for the church informed the site that its domain name infringed
on the Scientology trademark.
That ScienTOMogy.info featured pictures of Cruise, arguably the world's
most prominent Scientologist, in a straightjacket (that's bride-to-be
Katie Holmes in matching restraint-wear), and a video of Cruise
"kill[ing]" Oprah Winfrey with a powerful electric current, wasn't an
issue, the Scientology camp maintained. It was all about the "m"--the
lone letter distinguishing ScienTOMogy from Scientology.
"You can't use somebody's trademark, regardless of what you're saying,
if you haven't been given permission," Kobrin said.
*** Stollery, though, doesn't believe trademark concerns are at the
heart of the dispute. He believes his site's content is.
"When I started making a fool of what they consider to be the
[spokesman] for Scientology," Stollery said, referring to Cruise, "they
got a little testy about it."
Stollery said he's been told by church officials in his native New
Zealand that if he removed certain anti-Scientology links from the
site, the legal posturing would be ended. But Stollery isn't budging.
He said he's only adding links, not removing them. He's also refusing
to transfer ownership of the ScienTOMogy.info URL to the church, as
requested. ***
ScienTOMogy.info was launched in July in the wake of Cruise's
couch-jumping declarations of love to Holmes and dead-serious dialogue
about the dangers of prescription drugs. According to the site, it's
dedicated to "exposing Tom Cruise's moronic behaviour [sic] in his
relentless crusade to promote the cult, Church of Scientology." Mostly,
it features clips of Cruise's most controversial TV talk-show
stops--Oprah Winfrey, The Today Show, etc.--and several short parody
videos.
Legal battles or no, Stollery said running the site has been "a lot of
fun."
No word, meanwhile, on how Mel Gibson is taking to PassionofCruise. "
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In other words the url will just redirect - nothing else - then watch
the churh continue their attack on some other basis as the domain is
not the core issue - trust me.
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http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.notserver.com/
http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html
http://www.rightard.org/ http://www.thedarkwind.org/
http://www.scienTOMogy.info - More Tom Cruise than HBO
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| User: "Midjis" |
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| Title: Re: Ha! ScienTOMogy upsot the morons |
22 Oct 2005 09:11:23 AM |
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(Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
It's been amusingly stupid, I must say. The web site got maybe
100 hits a day and when the Scientology kooks started to threaten,
the web site owner issued a press release containing the crime
syndicate's threats, including details of the syndicate sending
strong arm goons to the web site owner's residence.
Now he gets one million hits a day.
It's one of the basic principles of advertising: any publicity is good
publicity. It's a lesson the Catholic Church has gradually learned over
the course of the development of the movie industry: attack something,
condemn something, and you make it popular. Look at "The Passion of the
Christ" and notice how the Church kept relatively quiet about it. Even so,
the outrage of individuals and smaller church groups who believed it was
heresy was enough to make sure that just about everyone went to see it.
If the Church of Scientology had simply said nothing, like as not the site
would have continued without causing much of a stir. But, like the
habitually litigious mindset they are, they couldn't resist going for it,
and thus advertised it far better than it could have done for itself.
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Ha! ScienTOMogy upsot the morons |
22 Oct 2005 08:53:18 AM |
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:08:00 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
It's been amusingly stupid, I must say. The web site got maybe
100 hits a day and when the Scientology kooks started to threaten,
the web site owner issued a press release containing the crime
syndicate's threats, including details of the syndicate sending
strong arm goons to the web site owner's residence.
Now he gets one million hits a day.
I don't understand how they wield such power. But if anybody
remembers, they were behind the demise of anon.penet.fi when they
somehow got an Interpol warrant to break the remailer's anonymity to
find a particular user - and last I knew the US law didn't even apply
in Finland.
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