>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:08:55 -0600 >From: Verio Legal Department >To: John Young >Subject: Re: cryptome.org - Notification of DMCA Copyright Infringement > >Thank you for your prompt response. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >To: Verio Legal Department >From: John Young >Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:59 -0700 >Subject: Re: cryptome.org - Notification of DMCA Copyright Infringement > >Dear Legal Department, > >The file, http://cryptome.org/homormon.htm, has >been removed. > >Regards, > >John Young >Cryptome > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:45:26 -0600 >From: Verio Legal Department >Organization: Verio Inc. >To: jya@pipeline.com >Subject: Re: cryptome.org - Notification of DMCA Copyright Infringement > >Dear Mr. Young, > >This letter is to inform you that we have received proper notification >under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) regarding copyright >infringement on your site. Please remove the infringing materials by >Thursday, September 20, 2001, or we will be required by the DMCA to >disable your entire site, http://www.cryptome.org. >To read the DMCA, please see the link to the Act on > >http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/onlinesp/ . > >Sincerely, >Legal Department >VERIO Inc. > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: cryptome.org - Notification of DMCA Copyright Infringement >> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:52:24 -0600 >> From: "Stephen Bean" >> To: >> >> This letter is to notify you that your network is contributing to >> copyright infringement in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright >> Act ("DMCA") at the following Internet location: >> >> Web Page http://cryptome.org/homormon.htm >> IP Address 216.167.120.50/homormon.htm >> >> We represent Intellectual Reserve, Inc. ("IRI"), the owner of the >> copyright in an original work titled "Understanding and Helping >> Individuals with Homosexual Problems." IRI has a good faith belief that >> the material posted at this site is a reproduction of its copyrighted >> work and that IRI, its agents, or the law has not authorized this >> reproduction. >> >> We determined your involvement in this matter by running a trace route >> utility on the above web address, which yielded an IP address of >> 216.167.120.50. It is our understanding that Verio, Inc. maintains the >> netblock 216.167.0.0 - 216.167.127.255. >> >> In accordance with United States copyright law, we ask that you >> immediately remove or disable the aforesaid infringing web page. The >> posting of this copyrighted material on your network is in clear >> violation of the DMCA. See, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). >> >> We request a response from you as to your intentions no later than >> Friday, September 21, 2001, at which time we will advise IRI of its next >> course of action against the proprietor of the web site and any persons >> or entities knowingly facilitating this infringement. >> >> The information in this notification is accurate and I attest, under >> penalty of perjury, that I am authorized to act on behalf of IRI, the >> owner with exclusive rights to the aforesaid work. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> KIRTON & McCONKIE >> >> /s/ Stephen H. Bean >> >> Stephen H. Bean, Esq. >> Kirton & McConkie >> 1800 Eagle Gate Tower >> 60 East South Temple >> Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0120 >> (801) 323-5941 direct >> (801) 328-3600 main >> (801) 321-4893 fax > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >From: B >To: jya@pipeline.com >Date: 19 Sept 2001 > >My questions will be pointed, but they are not intended to be hostile. >Cryptome says: > >"Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US >court having jurisdiction." > >But: > >"Dear Verio Legal Department, > >The file, http://cryptome.org/homormon.htm, has been removed." > >Have Verio lost their nerve? Do they no longer support you? If someone >mirrors the original "homormon.htm" file, will you post links to it? I, for >one, found this particular document very interesting reading. Unfortunately, >I think the new version of the page has clobbered it from my browser's >cache. > >----- > >To: B >From: jya@pipeline.com > >We've responded to two DMCA notices from Verio, this is the second (see >first: http://cryptome.org/dvd-hoy-reply.htm). And we use the cases as fuel >for the controversial info-protection racket. If the plan works, the removed >doc will get even more attention now. I suspect the Mormons want more >attention for their homosexual therapy, it could have been one of them who >sent it to us. The document is widely available, and it was not just on >Cryptome. Its withdrawal will likely promote it. > >Want to help? Go see Google's cache of the doc before the Mormons get to it, >or if it is not there, post a request for a copy on the Net, or raise cain >some other way. Send us information on what happens. If you find the doc >hosted somewhere send us the URL. > >Verio has been very good about docs that govs want removed, and have refused >to shut us down on two previous occasions with that type. Those are the ones >our nosethumb statement is intended to attract. > >If we get a Verio notice about a gov doc, threatening to shut us down if it >is not removed, then we will give Verio a lot of free publicity, not just >the diddly kind they seem to like now. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------