CAPPS II pilot at San Jose - Delta to CAPPS II Boycotters: No more Coffee Mugs

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart () pobox com>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 22:43:17 -0800
To: dave () farber net
Subject: CAPPS II pilot at San Jose - Delta to CAPPS II Boycotters: No more
Coffee Mugs

Breaking news - The three airports in Delta's pilot project include San
Jose.
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Last week Bill Scannell <bill () scannell org> announced the
BoycottDelta.org protest against Delta's collaboration with the CAPPS II
pass-law pilot project.  Among other publicity activities,
BoycottDelta.org had T-shirt for sale on CafePress.com,
but Delta has filed a "intellectual property" complaint to stop them,
in spite of the Supreme Court's position that parody is protected,
and if you've seen the BoycottDelta.org logo, it's clearly just parody.
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Delta Shuts Down BoycottDelta Shop

CAPPS II Collaborator Stops T-Shirt Sales, Continues Privacy Invasion

Austin, TX (8 March 2003) -- BoycottDelta, an on-line website advocating a
total boycott of Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) until the airline stops all
cooperation with a test of the CAPPS II program, had its on-line
'BoycottDelta Action Tools' store closed down as a result of an intellectual
property rights violation alleged and filed by Delta with the store's host,
CafePress.com .

The store sold t-shirts, coffee mugs and stickers affixed with the
BoycottDelta logo, allowing activists to show their support for the
campaign.  The BoycottDelta logo consists of an all-seeing eye within a red
and blue triangle.  All BoycottDelta products were sold at cost.

BoycottDelta founder Bill Scannell expressed astonishment with Delta's move.

"Delta Air Lines has been deluged with thousands of emails and calls from
their customers over the past week complaining about their CAPPS II testing,
and the best Delta can come up with is to say 'don't wear a t-shirt'?  This
is corporate arrogance at its finest."

Over 200,000 unique visitors have visited the BoycottDelta website since it
went live on the 3rd of March.

Alternate sources of BoycottDelta protest tools are being identified.  A new
on-line store will be launched shortly.

The Google cache of the store can be seen at:

http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:HSkdQ1hc4coJ:www.cafeshops.com/boycottd
elta+boycottdelta+action+tools&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


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