IP: No free speech for animal rights Web sites

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> No free speech for animal rights Web sites
>
> A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of
> the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - -
> By Katharine Mieszkowski
>
> Aug. 31, 2001 | On Thursday, EnviroLink Network, a Pittsburgh-based
> nonprofit Internet service provider, took offline two Web sites belonging to
> the animal-rights activist group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. The action
> came in response to a letter sent to the ISP earlier in the week by
> Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British medical research firm. Citing the
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Huntingdon accused the activists of
> violating its copyright. Although no charges have yet been filed, under the
> terms of the DMCA, Envirolink was forced to remove the sites to avoid
> potential legal liability.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/08/31/dmca_animals/index.html
>
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