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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f41.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[https://www.westword.com/1997-03-06/news/nightmare-on-the-net/full Nightmare on the Net]</span>''' <span class="updated">March 6, 1997</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Alan Prendergast</span>, <span class="org organization-name">Denver Westword</span></span>
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<span class="entry-content">The confrontation escalated to new heights two years ago, when church officials escorted by federal marshals conducted a series of raids and seized computer equipment in California, Virginia and Colorado, claiming that the owners had obtained unauthorized copies of the secret, upper-level scriptures of Scientology and had distributed the material on the Internet, in violation of copyright and trade-secret laws ("Stalking the Net," October 4, 1995). Attorneys for [[:Category:Bridge Publications|Bridge Publications]] and [[:Category:Religious Technology Center|Religious Technology Center]], the CSI-affiliated groups that administer the copyrights to Hubbard's published and unpublished writings, also sued or threatened to sue Internet service providers, an anonymous remailer in Finland (a service that allows users to post e-mail anonymously), and dozens of Internet users who posted excerpts of the contested documents online -- triggering gigabytes of outrage that have drawn free-speech activists, computer law experts, hackers and Net-heads into the conflict.</span>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Wikipedia cite:<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><nowiki>{{cite news | first = Alan | last = Prendergast | title = Nightmare on the Net | url = https://www.westword.com/1997-03-06/news/nightmare-on-the-net/full | work = Denver Westword | date = March 6, 1997 | accessdate = February 7, 2019 }}</nowiki></div></div>
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