Article 23383 of alt.religion.scientology: Path: news.cybercom.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!info.bta.net.cn!mrbnsn From: mrbnsn@public.bta.net.cn (Michael Robinson) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing,alt.clearing.technology Subject: Threatening Communications (was: BULLETIN from **Biased Journalism**) Date: 26 Aug 1995 11:12:20 GMT Organization: Beijing Public Access Internet Lines: 81 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <41mvik$rf5@info.bta.net.cn> References: <41mda3$dk8@unlisys.unlisys.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: public.bta.net.cn Xref: news.cybercom.net alt.religion.scientology:23383 comp.org.eff.talk:8774 misc.legal.computing:2558 alt.clearing.technology:1452 In article <41mda3$dk8@unlisys.unlisys.net> tilman@berlin.snafu.de writes: >Threatening mail / e-mail should be published immediately. Oops. Oh, well. Better late than never. I am curious, though, what possible "non-amicable" resolution of this matter they envisioned with the Data Communications Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Unfortunately, history will never know. -----------------------------Forwarded--------------------------------------- From hkk@netcom.com Mon Aug 7 14:13:02 1995 Received: from netcom2.netcom.com (hkk@netcom2.netcom.com [192.100.81.108]) by info.bta.net.cn (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA07689 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 14:12:49 +0800 Received: by netcom2.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id XAA07526; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 23:10:36 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 23:10:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Helena Kobrin Subject: unauthorized posting of copyrighted material To: postmaster@info.bta.net.cn Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Dear Sir or Madam: I represent Religious Technology Center ("RTC"), the owner of the confidential Advanced Technology of the religion of Scientology, and the holder of exclusive rights under the copyrights applicable to the Advanced Technology materials. I do not speak Chinese, so I am writing in English and hope that you understand. We have been informed that someone has downloaded to your FTP site two postings of copyrighted, unpublished materials. These postings were made without the authorization of our client, which, of course, would not have given such authorization had it been requested. The first pages of these postings are included at the bottom of this message. These postings are located on the "current directory is/incoming." The first one is called "SCAMIZDAT-10" and the other is "Fishman." "SCAMIZDAT-10" includes a number of affidavits but starting from line 1,700 there are many pages of confidential copyrighted materials. The other document entitled "Fishman," also includes a number of affidavits but again starting at about 1,700 lines there are many pages of copyrighted materials. The copying of these materials on this FTP site, violates my client's legal rights in that it is the unauthorized making of electronic copies of the copyrighted material and the unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets materials. These actions constitute violations of the United States Copyright laws entitling my client to damages and injunction. I understand that this is also a violation of the China Copyright Act. It is essential that you take action to remove the material. We understand that the rules of most systems prohibit subscribers from posting, downloading or distributing copyrighted materials. We are also informed that the usual practice of systems operators in dealing with violations of their system rules is to first warn subscribers when complaints of wrongdoing are received, and then cancel the account if the subscriber continues his or her wrongdoing. We request an immediate confirmation that the materials have been removed. We would much prefer to resolve this matter with you amicably if you are willing to do so. Sincerely, Helena K. Kobrin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Robinson INTERNET: mrbnsn@public.bta.net.cn Beijing Cognitive Science Laboratory