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Comments on: Business rival makes highest ever online libel payout

Jimmy should look out 

Posted Friday 4th April 2008 10:03 GMT

"The court can and will award substantial sums of money for false and defamatory statements. While the court was told of the difficulties of tracking people down, the fact remains that they can be tracked down."

You need look no further than Wikipedia.

Tanner, half crown... 

Posted Friday 4th April 2008 15:45 GMT

Linux

Phew! Not the Lunix distro, then? Many's the time I've ribbed Gentoo users for being, well, odd. -O99 -pipe -funroll-loops -funroll-all-loops -ffast-math -freally-fast-math -freally-really-fast-math -fi-am-1337 -fsod-space-gimme-speed -fhold-the-pickles -march=blue-gene...

Then portage craps itself a couple of weeks later and they have to start again. "But it's fun!" comes the reply. Funny old world...

Board owner / ISP 

Posted Sunday 6th April 2008 09:26 GMT

Are there any details over the liability of the bulletin board owners or even the ISP? Were the board owners protected by their terms & conditions for transferal of liability to the people posting?

As an administrator, in my spare time, of a hobbiest bulletin board - I'd be interested in knowing more about that.

Strange that they didn't go after Private Eye 

Posted Sunday 6th April 2008 11:16 GMT

Coat

Private Eye have also printed some pretty serious allegations against Sunderland Housing themselves, as well as closely covering the whole "Dad's Place " debacle.

Mines the one next to the "Fuck the Housing Associations before they fuck you" banner, thanks.

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