Rocky Mountain News - 08/25/95 (Page 4a) EXPERTS SCOUR SEIZED DATA Scientology church hires computer teacm to search for copyright violations. By Karen Abbott Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer Computer experts are working around the clock to sift through as many as 10 million pages of data seized from Church of Scientology critics in Boulder County raids Monday. Equipment and printed material was taken to the Denver law offices of Scientology lawyer Todd Blakely, according to federal court documents. Experts who are not affiliated with the church are examining the data for copyright violations, the documents said. The church this week sued critics Larry Wollersheim and Robert Penny, charging the men violated copyright laws by putting secret scriptures on the Internet. With a court order from a federal judge, church representatives and U.S. marshals conducted the raid. The men have filed a request to have the material returned to their attorney, Tom Kelley, to seperate material covered by the lawsuit from confidential documents. The confidential material could be dangerous in the wrong hands, because it includes information about people who have killed themselves or tried to kill themselves for reasons related to their membership in the church, the request said. Wollersheim and Penny operate the non-profit F.A.C.T.Net, which distributes on the Internet information about the Church of Scientology. Computer expert Ronald Tencati, described in court documents how the seized material is being searched. He said the church has provided a list of key words unique to Scientology scriptures, and computers automatically search the seized material for those words. Anything without those words isn't searched further. Anything with the flagged words is examined by someone designated by the church. The computer searchers hired by the church include James Settle, former director of the FBI's computer crimes squad. Except for their business relationship, none of the searchers has any affiliation with the Church of Scientology, the documents said. Church lawyer Helena Kobrin of Chicago[sic] said an early look at printed material during the raids indicated there may be more than a thousand pages of material that violate copyright law. The church documents said Wollersheim, Penny, and their associates have schemed to "fill the Internet with propoganda and religious intolerance, and now have moved from the equivelant of computer hate grafitti to intellectual property infringement."