Boycott Those Cunts - Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon

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If they can spy on us, infringe on our wrights, scan us from their terrorist cars and vans, and invade our privacy, we too can unit under the fingertip of our keyboards to inform, shine the light, and unite to defeat these bastards who have no moral authority to infringe our lives, future, and the coming generations of your child, our kids, and our planet. Unite as one to defeat the Cunts in Amazon and to send a warning to any other hosting pieces of shit that we will not stand in violation of our constitutions rights as free and sovereign people. Boycott those cunts in Amazon and spread to send a message to those Nazis in the white house....

Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon
Posted By Daniel Ellsberg On December 2, 2010 @ 10:23 pm In News | 73 Comments
Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service:
December 2, 2010
I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.
For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over. I ask Amazon to terminate immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files and to send me no more notices.
I understand that many other regular customers feel as I do and are responding the same way. Good: the broader and more immediate the boycott, the better. I hope that these others encourage their contact lists to do likewise and to let Amazon know exactly why they’re shifting their business. I’ve asked friends today to suggest alternatives, and I’ll be exploring service from Powell’s Books, Half-Price Books, Biblio and others.
So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying to explain its action openly. This would be a good time for Amazon insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear–and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses–to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to sites like antiwar.com [1] that have now appropriately ended their book-purchasing association with Amazon.
Yours (no longer),
Daniel Ellsberg
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Article printed from Antiwar.com Blog: http://www.antiwar.com/blog
URL to article: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/d...tt-amazon/
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[1] antiwar.com: http://antiwar.com
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Amazon.com - Blatant Profiteering And The Theft Of Free Information
One Defiant Voice CAN Make a Difference!
In 2005 I wrote a book entitled Earths Forbidden Secrets Part One - Searching For The Past. Upon completion of the work I decided that the knowledge contained therein was too important to allow money to impede the flow of information and so with that in mind, I posted the work in e-book form on my website TheCrowHouse.com and made it available to the entire world as a free download.
It was recently brought to my attention that my free e-book is now for sale on Amazon.com without either, the authors permission, nor any royalties being made available to the author.
Folks, This is a very clear example of the blatant theft of material that has been provided freely for the betterment of humanity that is now being co-opted and used as a method of profit by a quite obviously dishonest and disreputable company which also, very obviously has ruthless disregard for anything but the bank accounts of its board members.
The following is a record of my ongoing correspondence with the profiteering theives the world knows as Amazon.com


07/02/10 14:58:55
Your Name:Maxwell Igan
Comments:
I am the author of the book "Earths Forbidden Secrets". I wrote and distribute the book as a free e book and yet here I find someone selling my work for $11.95 each. I would like the book removed from Amazon, the contact details of who ever is selling it and information on how to commence legal action against them, I would appreciate your help in this matter.

sincerely
Max Igan
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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 04:51:37 +0000
From: cust.service03@amazon.com
Subject: Your Amazon.com Inquiry

Greetings from Amazon.com.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Amazon.com's copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Amazon.com and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
- Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Amazon.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows:

Copyright Agent
Amazon.com Legal Department
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
phone: (206) 266-4064
fax: (206) 266-7010
e-mail: copyright@amazon.com

Thank you for taking the time to contact us about this matter.

Best regards,

Bharath M.
Amazon.com
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I wrote the book "Earths Forbidden Secrets" and I am the sole owner of this work. I have made it available to the world for free. I have not given Amazon permission to sell and profit from my work therefore selling it without my permission is unacceptable regardless. My website gets an average of 48,000 hits per day and I am an internationally syndicated radio talk show host and I will most definitely be bringing Amazons theft and blatant profiteering of my work to the attention of a great many people on my next radio broadcast and posting an article regarding this theft of my work on my website thecrowhouse.com within the next 24 hours if the work is not removed immediately and financial reimbursement for the copies that Amazon has already sold is not made to the owner of this work immediately

regards
Maxwell Igan
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Hello,

I'm sorry to hear that your book "Earths Forbidden Secrets" is being sold on our website without your permission.

We have a separate department for authors where they can submit their questions. Therefore, I request you to contact the author department using the given link below.
http://advantage.amazon.com/gp/vendor/pu...ntactusapp

Our Catalog Guide outlines ways authors and publishers can contact us about images and content, including listing new items, submitting corrections, enhancing the product detail page, and adding to the variety of information customers use to make a purchasing decision. You'll find the guide at:

http://www.amazon.com/publishers

As my colleague previously mentioned, if you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Amazon.com's copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Amazon.com and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
- Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Amazon.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows:
Copyright Agent
Amazon.com Legal Department
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
phone: (206) 266-4064
fax: (206) 266-7010
e-mail: copyright@amazon.com

You can obtain complete information about copyrighting generally from the following Library of Congress web page:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/forms/

Thank you for taking the time to contact us about this matter.

Best regards,

Praveena A.
Amazon.com
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Times up. Enjoy the Webpage, Enjoy next weeks Radio Show and Youtbe clip (I'll send you a link) Enjoy the negative publicity and hate mail and enjoy the lawsuit..
http://www.thecrowhouse.com/amazon.html
Best Regards
Maxwell Igan

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http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-s...tic-crisis

• Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 December 2010 07.54 GMT
• Article history
WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name
Everydns.net says attack against leaks site endangered other customers' service – effectively pushing site off the web
WikiLeaks was removed from its wikileaks.org address. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively "killing" its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.
The whistleblowers' website went offline for the third time in a week this morning, in the biggest threat to its online presence yet.
Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security, earlier this week called for any organisation helping sustain WikiLeaks to "immediately terminate" its relationship with them.
On Friday morning, WikiLeaks and the cache of secret diplomatic documents that have proved to be a scourge for governments around the world were only accessible through a string of digits known as a DNS address. The site later re-emerged with a Swiss domain, WikiLeaks.ch.
Julian Assange this morning said the development is an example of the "privatisation of state censorship" in the US and is a "serious problem."
"These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States," he warned.
The California-based internet hosting provider that dropped WikiLeaks at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday), Everydns, says it did so to prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense cyber attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.
The site this morning said it had "move[d] to Switzerland", announcing a new domain name – wikileaks.ch, with the Swiss suffix. However, the new address still only points to an IP address, suggesting WikiLeaks has been unable to quickly find a new hosting provider.
The Wikileaks.ch domain name, which only surfaced on Friday morning, is being served by the Swiss Pirate Party. And the routing to it is still being done by everydns.
Late yesterday evening Tableau Software, a company which published data visualisations, pulled one of its images picturing the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables at the request of Senator Lieberman. Writing on the company's blog, Elissa Fink said: "Our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he called for organisations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their relationship with the website."
Mark Stephens, the London-based lawyer acting on behalf of Assange, wrote on Twitter after the shutdown: "Pressure appears to have been applied to close the WikiLeaks domain name."
Andre Rickardsson, an expert on computer security at Sweden's Bitsec Consulting, told Reuters: "I don't believe for a second that this has been done by everydns themselves. I think they've been under pressure," he said, apparently referring to US authorities.
A new Germany-based WikiLeaks domain – wikileaks.dd19.de – also appeared on Friday morning, with its data apparently hosted in California. People have also taken to setting up alternative domain names that point to the WikiLeaks address. Robin Fenwick, a UK-based web services director, this morning launched Wikileeks.org.uk – a "joke domain" that points to the WikiLeaks DNS address.
In a statement on its website, the free everydns.net service said that the "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attacks by unknown hackers – who are trying to knock WikiLeaks off the net – meant that the leaks site was interfering with the service being provided to other users. That in turn meant that WikiLeaks had broken everydns.net's terms of service, and it cut the site off at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday).
DNS services translate a website name, such as guardian.co.uk, into machine-readable "IP quads" – in that case 77.91.249.30, so that http://77.91.249.30 will show the Guardian site. If the DNS fails, the site is only reachable via IP address – but WikiLeaks has not yet provided one via Twitter or other means.
Everydns.net said that the attacks – which have been going on all week, and led the site to temporarily host its services on Amazon's more resilient EC2 "cloud computing" service – "threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites".
WikiLeaks was given 24 hours' notice of the termination, and everydns said: "Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider."
The move comes after several days of WikiLeaks coming under a determined DDOS attack, apparently from hackers friendly to the point of view of the US government, which has disparaged the site's leaking of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
US companies have also come under intense political pressure to remove any connection to, or support for, WikiLeaks. Amazon ended its hosting of the cables on its EC2 cloud computer service earlier this week, but last night insisted in a blogpost that its decision was not due to pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, who has called for the removal of the data – and who has influenced at least one other US company to withdraw support for WikiLeaks data.
In a blogpost late on Thursday, Amazon said reports that government inquiries prompted it to remove the data were "inaccurate".
Amazon said:
"[Amazon Web Services] does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of service state that "you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity". It's clear that WikiLeaks doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy."
It noted that:
"When companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere."
But as commentators have pointed out, that stance is contradicted by the fact that Amazon has previously hosted the "war logs" from WikiLeaks which contained data about the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Connecting to WikiLeaks is presently not possible until it gets a new DNS service. WikiLeaks itself said on Twitter that the ending of DNS services was allegedly due to "claimed mass attacks" and called for further donations to "keep us strong".
http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-s...tay-online

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Amazon:

"When companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere."