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Besieged ISP Restores Pearl Vid
By Declan McCullagh
11:50 a.m. May 28, 2002 PDT
WASHINGTON -- The unedited video of journalist Daniel Pearl being
murdered is back online.
An Internet hosting company in Virginia, which the FBI threatened last
week with federal obscenity charges, said on Monday afternoon that it
would resume distribution of the horrific 4-minute video.
Pro Hosters owner Ted Hickman said he and his customer, ogrish.com,
decided to thumb their nose at the bureau's warnings for two reasons:
A realization that the FBI's threats were spurious, and the legal aid
of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"We have decided to take the hot seat in this position, mainly because
we and ogrish.com believe strongly in freedom of speech and freedom of
press and the First Amendment," Hickman said. "It's definitely
something that I think people should be able to view if they choose
to."
Last week, FBI agents from the Newark field office contacted a number
of hosting companies, including Pro Hosters. After consulting with his
customer -- ogrish.com owner Dany Klinker, who lives in the
Netherlands -- Hickman deleted the video showing the 38-year-old Wall
Street Journal reporter being slain in Pakistan by a radical Muslim
group.
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