Uploaded May 2008 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Mark Bunker, a leading critic of Scientology, lost his xenutv1 account a few weeks ago. The timing was particularly unfortunate because it interrupted plans for publicizing a major interview he had with actor Jason Beghe, a long time Scientologist who left the church and is now one of its most famous critics.
Mark can only get his account back if he convinces Viacom to withdraw the DMCAs it filed against him. This video examines Viacom's claim and provides a way for Mark to get Viacom to drop their complaint and get his account back.
Mark's website: xenutv.com
Mark now posts his videos here since he can't post at Youtube:
vimeo.com/channel7828
Visit the vimeo.com to see the Jason Beghe interview.
L. Ron Hubbard, is quoted as having said, "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion."
don-lindsay-archive.org/scientology/start.a.religion.html
Sites about Scientology
Sites questioning Scientology's actions.
exscientologykids.com
abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4702271&page=1
themaskedanalyst.com/Sceintology%20and%20the%20DMCA.htm
Scientology sites
scientology.org
religiousfreedomwatch.org
Mark discusses the loss of his Youtube account here. Check out the letter by a BayTSP employee acting on Viacom's behalf which says Mark's use of Viacom's clips were "clearing infringing":
xenutv.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/my-youtube-account
Two threads on Enturbulation.org relevant to Mark's lost account:
forums.enturbulation.org/100-xenutv-situation-room/continued-man-harpoons-xenutv1-megathread-9979/22
forums.enturbulation.org/100-xenutv-situation-room/viacom-emails-wbm-will-not-retract-10495/7
The Viacom DMCA dragnet of 2007: Viacom issues 100,000 DMCA takedown notices to Youtube. Nearly 60 of them are totally bogus.
themaskedanalyst.com/Viacom%20Dragnet.htm
Viacom did not consider fair use in their dragnet. LiberalViewer lost his account for a while because of this.
themaskedanalyst.com/LiberalViewer.htm
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued Viacom because their DMCAs did not take fair use into consideration The lawsuit was ended when Viacom reached an understanding with the EFF to give fair use a wide birth. Here is the relevant press release.
eff.org/deeplinks/2007/04/viacom-gives-fair-use-wide-berth-youtube
This post mentions that the two Colbert clips that Mark posted were under 2 minutes each:
forums.enturbulation.org/100-xenutv-situation-room/new-direction-drumming-up-dead-story-10756/2/#post196662
The Purpose of Copyright Law:
themaskedanalyst.com/The%20Purpose%20of%20Copyright%20Law.htm
On Fair Use:
themaskedanalyst.com/Fair%20Use.htm
Mark's blog posts where he commented on the Colbert videos. This commentary may add the transformative element that would persuade a Court that this was Fair Use.
xenutv.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/will-smith-scientologist
xenutv.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/the-book-of-stephen
Wendy Seltzer is an expert on internet and copyright law. Her experience is somewhat relevant to this discussion. Read about it here:
wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/02/15/dmca_saga_act_ii_counter_notification.html
wendy.seltzer.org/media/DMCA-counter-notification.pdf
Mark Bunker, a leading critic of Scientology, lost his xenutv1 account a few weeks ago. The timing was particularly unfortunate because it interrupted plans for publicizing a major interview he had with actor Jason Beghe, a long time Scientologist who left the church and is now one of its most famous critics.
Mark can only get his account back if he convinces Viacom to withdraw the DMCAs it filed against him. This video examines Viacom's claim and provides a way for Mark to get Viacom to drop their complaint and get his account back.
Mark's website: xenutv.com
Mark now posts his videos here since he can't post at Youtube:
vimeo.com/channel7828
Visit the vimeo.com to see the Jason Beghe interview.
L. Ron Hubbard, is quoted as having said, "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion."
don-lindsay-archive.org/scientology/start.a.religion.html
Sites about Scientology
Sites questioning Scientology's actions.
exscientologykids.com
abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4702271&page=1
themaskedanalyst.com/Sceintology%20and%20the%20DMCA.htm
Scientology sites
scientology.org
religiousfreedomwatch.org
Mark discusses the loss of his Youtube account here. Check out the letter by a BayTSP employee acting on Viacom's behalf which says Mark's use of Viacom's clips were "clearing infringing":
xenutv.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/my-youtube-account
Two threads on Enturbulation.org relevant to Mark's lost account:
forums.enturbulation.org/100-xenutv-situation-room/continued-man-harpoons-xenutv1-megathread-9979/22
forums.enturbulation.org/100-xenutv-situation-room/viacom-emails-wbm-will-not-retract-10495/7
The Viacom DMCA dragnet of 2007: Viacom issues 100,000 DMCA takedown notices to Youtube. Nearly 60 of them are totally bogus.
themaskedanalyst.com/Viacom%20Dragnet.htm
Viacom did not consider fair use in their dragnet. LiberalViewer lost his account for a while because of this.
themaskedanalyst.com/LiberalViewer.htm
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued Viacom because their DMCAs did not take fair use into consideration The lawsuit was ended when Viacom reached an understanding with the EFF to give fair use a wide birth. Here is the relevant press release.
eff.org/deeplinks/2007/04/viacom-gives-fair-use-wide-berth-youtube
This post mentions that the two Colbert clips that Mark posted were under 2 minutes each:
forums.enturbulation.org/100-xenutv-situation-room/new-direction-drumming-up-dead-story-10756/2/#post196662
The Purpose of Copyright Law:
themaskedanalyst.com/The%20Purpose%20of%20Copyright%20Law.htm
On Fair Use:
themaskedanalyst.com/Fair%20Use.htm
Mark's blog posts where he commented on the Colbert videos. This commentary may add the transformative element that would persuade a Court that this was Fair Use.
xenutv.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/will-smith-scientologist
xenutv.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/the-book-of-stephen
Wendy Seltzer is an expert on internet and copyright law. Her experience is somewhat relevant to this discussion. Read about it here:
wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/02/15/dmca_saga_act_ii_counter_notification.html
wendy.seltzer.org/media/DMCA-counter-notification.pdf
