Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube

Found on Electronic Frontier Foundation on Sunday, 07 September 2008
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Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology.

Whether or not American Rights Counsel, LLC represents the notoriously litigious Church of Scientology is unclear, but this would not be the first time that the Church of Scientology has used the DMCA to silence Scientology critics.

"You will find no recourse in attack, because for each of us that falls, ten more will take his place."