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Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP
A letter from Zimmermann in response to an article in the Washington Post that claims that he was overwhelmed with feelings of guilt about the use of PGP by suspected terrorists. Zimmermann states that the article misrepresents his views.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/24/162236&mode=nested
Top/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Specific_Conflicts/War_on_Terrorism/News_and_Media/September_11,_2001/Slashdot

Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling
Readers discuss the verdict of the Swedish High Court, which upheld a lower court's ruling that Zenon Panoussis had infringed Scientology's copyright. Includes comments from Arnie Lerma and Karin Spaink. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/09/1425236.shtml
Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Scientology/Legal_Issues

FRG on W2K: No CoS
Readers discuss Microsoft's decision to provide instructions to Germans on how to remove defrag from Win2K because the software developer's CEO is a Scientologist. The security risk is no joke. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/05/1335233.shtml
Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Scientology/News_and_Media

Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website
The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of anti-Scientology site xenu.net from search results and directory. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/03/21/0453200.shtml
Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Scientology/News_and_Media

Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot
The Church of Scientology alleged that an anonymous comment violated their copyright. Under the terms of the DMCA, Slashdot was forced to remove the offending post--but listed links to many anti-Scientology sites. Readers responded with more than 1500 c
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml
Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Scientology/News_and_Media

Google Relists Operation Clambake
After a furor over Google's removal of xenu.net from its database, the search engine relisted it--but only the main page. The other pages named in Scientology's DMCA complaint are still banned from Google. [Slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250
Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Scientology/News_and_Media

eBay E-Meter Auctions Yanked
Although anyone can buy an e-meter, eBay has yanked auctions of e-meters after the Church of Scientology claimed that copyright protection applies to the devices under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Slashdot]
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/1712248
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