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hey hollywood....listen up!! you do not speak for me!!

May 01, 2003

Our own personal wind chill (Follywood)

Well, folks - it's been a blast and it's been fun.

Apparently, our domain registrar (namesdirect.com - subsidiary of Dotster.com) have caved to the pressures of the William Morris Agency giant. On April 29, 2003, Dotster.com received a letter from the William Morris Agency in regards to this website. Their complaint accused us of liable and potentially other civil and criminal offenses.

This is another fine example of how Hollywood feels that their opinion and view is the only one that matters. Average citizens are disallowed the free expression of our point of view because they don't like being challenged for their views. I stand firm on the belief that we have done nothing wrong at this website - - The celebrities have expressed their views, and we have responded in kind by expressing our views regarding the thoughts and ideas that they have, publicly, expressed.

Dotster.com has suspended our update information at this domain and have informed us that the DNS information of this domain has been changed and the website will be down within the next 24 hours and our contract with them is now null and void. They are doing this because we did not provide accurate contact information in their public database.

When I explained that the reason we did not provide accurate contact information is because we have received multiple death threats and I did not wish for just anyone to have my personal information - and asked them for suggestions on what to do - Dotster was unmoved. They did not give me the chance to update the information with accurate information and keep the domain. That's not an option - - they are just simply going to shut down our domain - no explanation needed.

Further questioning of Dotster brought me a copy of the letter sent to them by the William Morris Agency and reads as follows:

We, in fact, recieved no such email from the William Morris Agency.

I can say only this - - the fact that we're being shut down because of the William Morris Agency tells me that we truly touched a raw nerve in someone, somewhere. At the very least, it tells me that our message was recieved by the people that it was intended for. The very fact that we cannot express our opinions regarding the views of these stars/celebs shows me, yet again, the double standard that exists in Follywood.

Thank you all for your support at this website - it appears my hands are tied in keeping it open. Dotster will be closing down our site within the next 24-48 hours. I appreciate the hard work that Chris and Reilly have done at this site and appreciate the ongoing and intelligent, provoking discussions held here.

Warm Regards.

Several of the most current threads at www.boycott-hollywood.us are still up, below the William Morris item. Perhaps we FReepers should copy and post them. William Morris's idea is to get them off the Net. If they get reposted here or elsewhere, they get saved and can still be read.

"may potentially be...". And of course they don't cite any examples.

Hollywood's idea of "cease and desist" meant to scare a weaker individual.

I wonder if Doster would be buying a yacht if well known Hollywood celebrity Ed McMahon told them "they may have already won $20,000,000!!!"

Somehow I doubt that William Morris told any of the trained seals they represent any of these same things like "the harm it was (they were) causing and the innaccuracy ot its(their) representations" with their antiAmericanWar and AntiBush propaganda.

Then again, we know of many conservative websites (like FR) that were "blamed" for the Vichy Chicks' sudden decline in popularity resulting in "harrassing and threatening e-mail messages" posted to FR.

The operator of the "boycott-hollywood" site also received threatening emails.

To me this letter that WM sent is a threat (of lawsuit).