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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f354.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/alt.scientology.war.html alt.scientology.war]</span>''' <span class="updated">December 1, 1995</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Wendy M. Grossman</span>, Wired 3.12, <span class="org organization-name">Wired</span></span> |
<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f354.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/alt.scientology.war.html alt.scientology.war]</span>''' <span class="updated">December 1, 1995</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Wendy M. Grossman</span>, Wired 3.12, <span class="org organization-name">Wired</span></span> |
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The story of Scientology versus the Net is not a tale of friendly nethead-to-nethead hostilities like 1993's kittens-in-the-microwave flame war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats. This is mortal combat between two alien cultures - two worlds whose common language masks the gulf between them. A flame war with real guns. A fight that has burst the banks of the Net and into the real world of police, lawyers, and armed search and seizure. Ultimately, however, the drama doesn't matter: the real issues here are the boundaries of free speech and the future of copyright and intellectual property in the face of a technology that can scatter copies across the world in seconds. The Church of Scientology will not be the last organization, controversial or otherwise, that seeks to protect its interests against the Net. Technology doesn't care about the motives of its users. |
<span class="entry-content">The story of Scientology versus the Net is not a tale of friendly nethead-to-nethead hostilities like 1993's kittens-in-the-microwave flame war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats. This is mortal combat between two alien cultures - two worlds whose common language masks the gulf between them. A flame war with real guns. A fight that has burst the banks of the Net and into the real world of police, lawyers, and armed search and seizure. Ultimately, however, the drama doesn't matter: the real issues here are the boundaries of free speech and the future of copyright and intellectual property in the face of a technology that can scatter copies across the world in seconds. The Church of Scientology will not be the last organization, controversial or otherwise, that seeks to protect its interests against the Net. Technology doesn't care about the motives of its users.</span> |
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<code><nowiki>{{cite news | first = Wendy M. | last = Grossman | title = alt.scientology.war | url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/alt.scientology.war.html | work = Wired 3.12 | publisher = Wired | date = 1995-12-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}</nowiki></code> |
<code><nowiki>{{cite news | first = Wendy M. | last = Grossman | title = alt.scientology.war | url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/alt.scientology.war.html | work = Wired 3.12 | publisher = Wired | date = 1995-12-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}</nowiki></code> |
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The story of Scientology versus the Net is not a tale of friendly nethead-to-nethead hostilities like 1993's kittens-in-the-microwave flame war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats. This is mortal combat between two alien cultures - two worlds whose common language masks the gulf between them. A flame war with real guns. A fight that has burst the banks of the Net and into the real world of police, lawyers, and armed search and seizure. Ultimately, however, the drama doesn't matter: the real issues here are the boundaries of free speech and the future of copyright and intellectual property in the face of a technology that can scatter copies across the world in seconds. The Church of Scientology will not be the last organization, controversial or otherwise, that seeks to protect its interests against the Net. Technology doesn't care about the motives of its users.
{{cite news | first = Wendy M. | last = Grossman | title = alt.scientology.war | url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/alt.scientology.war.html | work = Wired 3.12 | publisher = Wired | date = 1995-12-01 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}