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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire
Wow. Run Loob. Run.
EDIT - So how does this work? Does the Message Board owner get fined? It's got to be pretty difficult and probably not worth the effort to track down these posters.
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There is a law in the US that shields forums and other sites with user submitted content (i.e.: Wikipedia) from lawsuits based on the postings of users in most cases. That's how content ripoff sites like Funnyjunk survive. "It wasn't us, it was the users. We're not stealing their content, we're just profiting off of it."
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Is this the first legal case of this kind, I wonder? I have not heard of similar cases, where anonymous forum users have been named in a lawsuit. Someone in US have sued for violations of game rules in some silly Internet-based "game of life" (the name escapes me at this moment), although I didn't hear how it had evolved thereafter. But this is so different on so many levels!
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Speaking of Funnyjunk, the lawyer behind that one tried suing a blogger and various commenters and got slapped down by the courts. It's happened a fair bit in the US. I have no idea how this would work in Canada though. I suspect CP is fine since they obviously took prompt action to remove, but this could be an interesting case to follow.