“If Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch was an 8 on the scale of scary, this is a 10,” Nick Denton wrote on his media and gossip Web site Gawker.com on Jan. 15, when he posted an internal Church of Scientology video in which Mr. Cruise rhapsodizes about his religion. The page has been viewed over 2.3 million times, a record for Gawker.
At Scientology’s request, YouTube and other sites took down the copyrighted video, but Gawker refused, instead posting and mocking the reproachful letter sent by a Los Angeles lawyer representing the church.
Link to video
Here is the page with the Tom Cruise video. What is amazing about this video is how many minutes Tom is able to actually move his mouth without saying anything.
Gawker? Ah yes, the same folks connected to Gizmodo
This is a strange outfit. Gawker Media has to be more careful than this. One property gets a letter as discussed in the New York Times article. Another property, Gizmodo, gets banned from CES over a prank that should not have happened at all.
Just because one can do something does not mean it should be done. Gawker Media keeps going off the deep end. I can only imagine what might have if a creative lawyer tried to pursue them for any of their odd occurrences so far in 2008.
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Stephen Kellat, Host, LISten
he’s not crazy, he’s my leader
“Save me Tom Cruise,” Will Farrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
It’s amazing how often this “religion” which “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” gets trademark protections and continually threatens legal action for its materials on the web by claiming, “that’s our property; that was stolen; or that’s confidential.”
I don’t mock Tom Cruise. I fear him because he wants to live in a world without me.
Anonymous
Knowledge is free.
We are anonymous.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ
Arguments from authority are unacceptable. ~Carl Sagan