Re: 1 Peter 3:15

JEB (jeb@ingress.com) wrote: : [ Article crossposted from alt.christnet.evangelical ] : [ Author was JEB ] : [ Posted on 24 Jul 1995 20:38:54 GMT ] Doesn't look crossposted to me. The headers indicate a multi-post.

: A CHALLENGE TO ANY THINKING PERSON

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Dear Ms./Mr JEB:

I represent Religious Technocracy Cretins ("RTC"), the owner of the confidential Bible [TM] of the Christian Religion, and the holder of exclusive rights under the copyrights applicable to the Bible materials. Among these copyrighted and confidential materials are the Bible [TM] materials of a certain level known as "The Book of Peter," or "Peter."

I am informed that you have posted on alt.religion.scientology a portion of the Peter materials without authorization of RTC, which, of course, would not have given such authorization had it been requested because we don't want people to achieve eternal peace and salvation unless they pay us a *lot* of money. Your action violates RTC's legal rights in that it is the unauthorized making of an electronic copy of the copyrighted material and the unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets materials and whatever else I can think of. Oh, yes, inaddition, your action violates federal laws against blasphemy.

Your posting constitutes violations of applicable copyright laws and trade secret misappropriation entitling our client to damages, injunction, and damning your soul to eternal torment. It is essential that you take immediate and effective action to remove the unauthorized copy from the Internet, and that you refrain from any repetition of this or similar acts in the future, including having carnal knowledge of nudibranchs. You are also to delete these and any other Advanced Technology materials from your hard drive and any floppy disks and to destroy any hard copies you have made, and to forget you ever read the Bible [TM]. I emphasize: if you have the Bible [TM], you must immediately put it in a shredder.

In addition, your downloading of the copyright and trade secret materials also violates laws prohibiting copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, sacrilige, and being a pain in my ass. Your use and disclosure of these materials is *not* fair use, because it's *just* *not* *fair*. No case in the United States has ever found fair use to apply to copying unpublished materials, as even Martin Luther's attorney had to admit in open court, except for a couple cases I'd rather not talk about. There is no fair use defense to trade secret misappropriation, regardless of the fact that the Bible [TM] has been spread throughout the globe for nigh on two milennia.

I will expect an immediate response from you with a statement of your willingness to comply with these demands, and to hit your knees and pray to the RTC and the Christian Religion. If you do not comply immediately, we will have no other recourse but to initiate legal action to compel compliance, and you know how much we love compliance. Of course, you may also find your soul in hell forever.

Very Truly Yours, keith SP4 OT VII OT7