RED ALERT!

Read what Viacom is and has been doing to fans like me who

just want

to honor one of the best science fiction shows ever.

After

I tell you my story, then click on the links below to see

what is being done about this; you can make a difference.

Read the very interesting letters that I have made available for you if you still aren't sure what is going on. My only intent with the posting of these materials is to make them easy to read, gathered in one place. No copyright misuse or infringement is intended on this site. This is my personal site, and not intended for any commercial purposes.

I would give you a quote right about now from "one" of the many very interesting quotes used in "one" of the many different Star Trek episodes, but...

No doubt you all know about Viacom's strange actions in shutting

down sites.I am a huge fan of Star Trek, and I did have a ST site

on my school's server; however, I had to shut it down. But I want

to be here even though I don't have many pictures or sounds. I could

have understood this if Viacom had shut down

the sites as soon as

they saw them, but they started this very soon after they put

up the

Continuum on MSN. Here's what's going on: we can't have pictures,

sounds or videos. We also

can't write our favorite lines from episodes,

can't give reviews

of episodes or

movies on a page even if they have

aired already on the off chance that we'd be spoiling it for someone... We

can only have what they call "general discussion". How can you discuss Trek without

giving summaries of episodes

or movies?

The fan sites only promote the franchise even more than the "official" continuum does. If the continuum ever does become the only site, I suggest that trekkers get together and have more than one person use the MSN account. Just give your MSN password to friends who like trek. I know this would never happen, but if all trekkers were logging in on less than ten MSN accounts, that would hit Viacom where it really hurts...the pockets! I hope Viacom hasn't taken over the domain of free speech yet, or I will probably be in trouble for suggesting this idea.

This has been a very bad PR move on Viacom's part. One of the people who received one of those "infamous letters" had helped them to do a survey for The 30th Anniversery Special on UPN. In an article (on his site) they claimed they had just found his site and sites like it a few months ago. I really don't think anyone would take that long to find Vidiot's site...it was very easy to find.
Take a look at the letter he has posted: Viacom's Warpath

And to some of you reading this page, this is old news. But, as I said at the start of this page, I at least wanted to have some say on the web about Star Trek. I may not have that many images, sounds or quotes, but I still have the freedom to express myself.......I think.

Well, for me to say anything else would probably be redundant of what you've already heard, so for more info on stopping this: go to off headquarters
And if you want to read the laws regarding copyrighting, go to this site:
U.S.C. TITLE 17 - COPYRIGHTS

If you haven't read the open letter from Paramount to the Star Trek fans, then check it out now.

read open letter

And here is a letter written to one of the sites that Paramount objected to. Do you notice that it sounds quite a bit different from the open letter?

read the letter

Read the report done by CNN on the Viacom copyright battle and the OFF movement.

read the report

This is a post from a newsgroup that I read from Joe Michael Straczynski (B5's creator in case you don't know.) I thnk it is a very good idea. Viacom didn't pay attention to simple disclaimers, and I hope they would be willling to agree to this. If not, then they can't say it's just a copyright thing.

read the post

Here is a site with information from an interview with Johnathan Frakes. Click here.
Well, I may have had to shut down my site, but I did help a friend set one up.
You better visit her site soon, you never know! Star Trek from GloriAnon

And if you want to learn more about me, visit my page, Bester P12

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