"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exclusive copyrights in this work, even if those links are no
longer valid (because pages have been removed, or moved).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.org/wwwboard/messages/1181.html
(and related messages: see SPA.ORG updates above)
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