Reply #189: Question to Bev Harris

[Romberry]

Bev, I'm a fan but I have to ask you point blank: Do you mean to tell me that you and your associate volunteers did not have several full, complete backups of everything including the various files, web pages and memos stored on stable media WORM media and local hard drives? If that is the case and you counted on FTP space located on a server you did not own and have physical control over, well, it just wouldn't be the least bit smart.

The critics of $cientology went through all of this with followers of L. Wrong Hubbard. All files must be backed up onto stable media and disseminated widely and even anonymously, otherwise you risk the DMCA storm troopers literally busting through your door to confiscate everything you have.

If you need a DMCA resistant web host, I suggest you look at the host for Karen Spaink's $cientology critic pages (www.xs4all.nl), Andreas Heldal-Lund's pages at Xenu.net or some server in RU.

So anyway, did you have complete backups of all files, folders and pages? If you did, it really shouldn't matter what was confiscated from your FTP or web space.

(If this has already been answered, my apologies. It's a long thread and I didn't see this addressed when I skimmed.)