Breaking news - The three airports in Delta's pilot project include San Jose. -----------
Last week Bill Scannell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> announced the BoycottDelta.org protest against Delta's collaboration with the CAPPS II pass-law pilot project. Among other publicity activities, BoycottDelta.org had T-shirt for sale on CafePress.com, but Delta has filed a "intellectual property" complaint to stop them, in spite of the Supreme Court's position that parody is protected, and if you've seen the BoycottDelta.org logo, it's clearly just parody. ---------------------
Delta Shuts Down BoycottDelta Shop
CAPPS II Collaborator Stops T-Shirt Sales, Continues Privacy Invasion
Austin, TX (8 March 2003) -- BoycottDelta, an on-line website advocating a total boycott of Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) until the airline stops all cooperation with a test of the CAPPS II program, had its on-line 'BoycottDelta Action Tools' store closed down as a result of an intellectual property rights violation alleged and filed by Delta with the store's host, CafePress.com .
The store sold t-shirts, coffee mugs and stickers affixed with the BoycottDelta logo, allowing activists to show their support for the campaign. The BoycottDelta logo consists of an all-seeing eye within a red and blue triangle. All BoycottDelta products were sold at cost.
BoycottDelta founder Bill Scannell expressed astonishment with Delta's move.
"Delta Air Lines has been deluged with thousands of emails and calls from their customers over the past week complaining about their CAPPS II testing, and the best Delta can come up with is to say 'don't wear a t-shirt'? This is corporate arrogance at its finest."
Over 200,000 unique visitors have visited the BoycottDelta website since it went live on the 3rd of March.
Alternate sources of BoycottDelta protest tools are being identified. A new on-line store will be launched shortly.
The Google cache of the store can be seen at:
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:HSkdQ1hc4coJ:www.cafeshops.com/boycottd elta+boycottdelta+action+tools&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
