"The Federal Zone" Copyright Amnesty Program TO: All Readers and Users of "The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of Internal Revenue" FROM: Paul Andrew Mitchell, Author (all editions) DATE: July 11, 1999 SUBJECT: Copyright Amnesty Program Dear Neighbors, We have completed our initial complaint against 500+ parties for direct and indirect infringements of my exclusive copyrights in the book entitled "The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of Internal Revenue," all editions, both printed and electronic. See Title 17, United States Code ("U.S.C."), and the related criminal penalties in Title 18, U.S.C., e.g. Section 2319(c)(1): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2319.html Our written complaint fully documents numerous violations of the Copyright Act of 1976, for widespread Internet dissemination of this work, and of the Lanham Act, for making unauthorized modifications, and for falsely representing their true origins. The Lanham Act permits triple damages to be awarded to the damaged party. We now estimate that two million+ copies were obtained without paying the $25 fee for each (2,371,324 x $25.00 = $59,283,100.00 in actual damages). We have reviewed the professional literature available from the Software Publishers Association, and are now prepared to convince a qualified jury that hypertext links to all stolen and modified versions of "The Federal Zone" likewise infringe my exclusive copyrights in this work, even if those links are no longer valid (because pages have been removed, or moved). All links that were once valid still point to stolen property, and provide a chain of evidence leading to other existing violations. Because many Internet users throughout the world were completely unaware that all copies of "The Federal Zone" extant on the Internet were stolen and then modified, without this author's prior permission, those users ran Internet browsers to download all, or part, of these modified versions without paying anything for this proprietary content, in 42 component files. Many other Internet users received several email messages from us during the past year, demanding that they remove all copies and all links from all websites to which they had any write access. Some of these users complied with our demands, and others did not. Those who refused to honor my exclusive copyrights will not be eligible for the Amnesty Program described immediately below. If you did obtain all or part of "The Federal Zone" from anywhere on the Internet, and you were unaware that all these versions were stolen and modified, we hereby offer to hold you harmless of any indirect copyright infringements, provided that you do all of the following: (1) on or before July 31, 1999, send us a prepaid order for one printed ninth edition by using the Internet order form at URL: http://supremelaw.org/fedzone9/order.htm (2) on or before July 31, 1999, delete all copies of any component files from all computers to which you have any write access whatsoever; and, (3) accompany your order form with an affidavit verifying that you have deleted all copies of any component files from all computers to which you have write access. Please be advised that all electronic editions of the book "The Federal Zone" are hereby recalled, whether authentic or not, due to the widespread criminal abuses which we have now thoroughly documented in evidentiary form. The sole exception to this recall are the official versions of the book's Appendices which are now available, for free, from the Supreme Law Library at Internet URL: http://supremelaw.org/fedzone9/index.htm In closing, we must inform you that we expressly reserve our Right to refuse amnesty to anyone, for any reason. Nevertheless, amnesty will not be refused for arbitrary reasons, particularly if we are convinced that the party requesting amnesty has acted in good faith and continues to act in good faith. Thank you very much, in advance, for your cooperation and your participation in this Copyright Amnesty Program. Sincerely yours, /s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. Counselor at Law, Federal Witness, Private Attorney General and Author (early editions under a pen name) copy: The Internet See also: http://www.spa.org/piracy/programs/legal.htm http://www.spa.org/piracy/programs/legalpolicy.htm http://www.spa.org/piracy/programs/risk.htm http://www.spa.org/piracy/programs/share.htm http://www.spa.org/piracy/programs/glossary.htm http://supremelaw.com/wwwboard/messages/1181.html (and related messages: see SPA.ORG updates above) # # #
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