Here's a quick summary of the situation regarding Desteni's threats to prosecute critics.
In September 2010 Cresil1HumanOST made available for download 11 Desteni Structural Resonance Alignment Lessons - Complete.
http://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,62042,92149#msg-92149These were made up of several videos and documents copyright on which is owned by the Desteni company (assuming there is such a company,
there may actually not be).
Cresil1HumanOST also made these same materials available via a link provided with a now deleted video that was on
his YouTube channel.
All of which was in flagrant violation of copyright, and Desteni would have had a legitimate case against him. They already had his real name and address, as he was a former member of Desteni, but they took no action.
At the time, when he was asked why not, Darryl Thomas replied that it was unimportant because those particular SRAT materials were out of date. That was AFTER they had already flagged a YouTube video by Cresil1HumanOST containing part of the same SRAT material.
In November 2010, Bernard Poolman released three videos via the Desteni subscription forum (leaked to this forum by a still active member of Desteni) suggesting he would be taking Rick Ross and other people posting at this forum and elsewhere to court (Posted in Feb this year:
http://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,62042,97563#msg-97563) ...
1. Criminal Investigations Involving Rick Ross and others2. Recent US Copyright Law Adjustment3. Collecting Information Prior to Laying Criminal ChargesSix months later and Poolman has not even attempted any such thing.
As is well known, DarrylWThomas and DesteniProductions on YouTube have been flagging lots of videos made by critics of Desteni, and claiming copyright violation for quite some time now.
Once ThomDarc challenged the last copyright claim against his fair use of Desteni material, he gave Darryl and Desteni the chance to pursue their claim.
Yet AGAIN, they didn't even bother to make the slightest effort to pursue it.
All these empty threats by Desteni amount to nothing.
Their flagging of videos is to try and detract from the issue, they simply don't like what people are saying about them, especially when they make fun of them. The reality is, fair use is not copyright violation, and Desteni have no lawyers to back them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/16/2011 04:28AM by Sandman.