reemul asks: if the secret teachings of the Scientologists are actually ancient knowledge handed down by superior beings, wouldn’t the copyright period have already expired? If the works *are* copyrightable, doesn’t that indicate that the documents are a new creation authored in the last 75 years? Hmmm….
tikk posts an insightful comment which explains why the whole Google/Scientology thing hasn’t blown over and why the DMCA is bad news for search engines. (we knew the bad news part already).
/. sidenote: The (Hopefully) Great Slashdot Blackout will be an interesting experience. Personally, the comments are for me, pretty much the primary reason I read /. If I wanted just the latest tech news, I could do just as well following the register/inquirer or news.com. It’s too bad that /.’s community relations are so messed up (partly caused/perpetuated by some of the /. editor’s attitudes on the whole thing, I suppose).