Scientology faces threat from Internet movement

The Church of Scientology is embroiled in an invisible war with an enemy hell-bent on its absolute destruction.

Invisible wars are nothing new to members of Scientology - they've been battling the invisible electrical impulses that make people do bad things for years. They're also used to negative media attention, as they've spent the better part of their existence battling that too.

The difference is, now their enemy is human and using the Internet to mobilize its army against the church.

The declaration of war begins with Internet piracy. In late 2007, a video intended only for Scientologists was released to the public via the user-generated media site YouTube.com.

The video wasn't anything more than a fancy recruitment video released by the Religious Technology Center featuring Tom Cruise. The Church of Scientology viewed the leak as a breach of privacy and began taking action against its aggressors - using the legal system to simply and efficiently silence its critics.

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