[sklyarov-chicago] Salon: DMCA threat shuts down animal rights website

[Keith Lamont]

"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."


Full story at

http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/08/31/dmca_animals/index.html