Weekend Linkroll - Backfire

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 19th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Linkblog

ScrabulousIt has been another big week for copyright news. The Church of Scientology gets a taste of its own medicine, Time Warner tries out a new payment plan designed to deter downloading and a forest leveled all in the name of attacking The Pirate Bay.

And that’s just the beginning.

Remember, as usual, this week’s linkroll is a “raw” link list. Some stories are duplicated, some do not point to their original sources and some may not be accurate. A great deal of refining goes into producing the show notes for the Copyright 2.0 Show.


Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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7 Responses »

  1. According to valerie on January 20th, 2008 at 1:03 am:

    “Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute pictures of their own cars”

    All I have to say is.. .WTF?!

  2. According to Jonathan Bailey on January 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am:
    Valerie: Let me assure you that you were not the only one saying that…
  3. According to Recording Studio on January 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 am:

    I found the two links to the Scientology sites absolutely fascinating. Or should I say, hilarious! What is your reaction, Jonathan, the common man’s reaction, not the plagiarism consultant? One better, the Ford story. Valerie, here is proof that there is at least another one to say the same thing, perhaps even more colorfully.

  4. According to Jonathan Bailey on January 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm:
    RS: My non-professional opinion of Scientology is one of great concern. Looking over the history of scientology and how they’ve hurt people, both members and detractors, bled people dry financially and even been responsible for at least a pair of deaths, I genuinely worry about the faith and those who are in it.

    Poking fun as Scientology is both deserved and fun, but there are a lot of people that are very seriously hurt by this organization.

    I guess, in a strange way, I hope that by making fun of and belittling the organization we can prevent good people from getting caught up in it and help people. It is a strange situation where humor might save lives.

    Strange thought isn’t it?

  5. According to Recording Studio on January 25th, 2008 at 1:42 am:

    What you say is shocking. I did not know that this was the situation. I thought that these guys were simply harmless nuts. Where can I get more actual information? Their website does not offer much.

  6. According to Recording Studio on January 25th, 2008 at 1:46 am:

    I have been referred to Clambake and a cursory peep seems to open up a pandora’s box! Wow.

  7. According to Jonathan Bailey on January 25th, 2008 at 2:21 pm:
    RS: Operation Clambake is the site was going to recommend but you beat me to it. For those who are reading this but haven’t seen the site, it is http://www.xenu.net/. I found the tale of Lisa McPherson especially damming.

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