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Did I ever say that I practice what I preach?

Over the last few days I’ve been following a story about how lawyers for the church of Scientology have shut down web sites that talk about Scientology’s “secrets.”

The main site in question posted an article entitled “Amazing Scary In-Depth Look at Scientology!” But when you go to the site now, you’ll instead see:

Church of Scientology Takedown Notice

This office represents the L. Ron Hubbard Library, the owner of the copyrights to a number of scriptures and trade secrets, the founder of the Scientology religion, has issued the following notice to Verio Inc, a subsidiary of NTT Communications. The website “codebot.org” under your control registered to IP address 161.58.73.89 is in violation of federal trademark and copyright laws.

This information summary contains the details necessary for you to understand the events, background and issues of the equity and law that pertains to the Church of Scientology’s fight for its property and First Amendment right of free religious exercise.

A small portion of the Church’s scriptures were broadly released on said website, and made available to the general public who have not completed the prior steps of religious study and counseling. Conspiracy to disseminate Scientology’s copyrighted and trade secret scriptures is a crime and will result in arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisoned for theft. Additionally, The Church faces economic harm from what would be essentially black market trafficking in its protected works and attempts to dissuade individuals from becoming Scientologists by holding its scriptures up to derision. As a result we request you suspend the account holding this website, and place this notice up in reparation for our damages. Your prompt attention to this matter will result in no further legal action.

We appreciate your attention.

Legal Department
Church of Scientology International
6331 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 960 3500
Fax: (323) 960 3508

The article has been mirrored here.

So how far do you have to go before their lawyers will take you down?