Could an internet squabble go to court?
Hello,
My wife has received a call today from somebody who is apparently a legal representative of someone who she (my wife) has been having arguments with. He was abrupt on the phone and said that papers were going to be posted to us with a view to suing for libel.
It is an expat forum, where her antagonist on multiple occasions accused her of all sorts of things. She has also been posting obscenities about me and my wifes family.
Is there any precidents of such incidents going to court at all? To me it all seems a bit surreal and ridiculous.
Any thoughts and opinions welcome.
Going to the pub for a hour back soon:p
My wife has received a call today from somebody who is apparently a legal representative of someone who she (my wife) has been having arguments with. He was abrupt on the phone and said that papers were going to be posted to us with a view to suing for libel.
It is an expat forum, where her antagonist on multiple occasions accused her of all sorts of things. She has also been posting obscenities about me and my wifes family.
Is there any precidents of such incidents going to court at all? To me it all seems a bit surreal and ridiculous.
Any thoughts and opinions welcome.
Going to the pub for a hour back soon:p
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http://www.lawdit.co.uk/reading_room/room/view_article.asp?name=../articles/Defamation%20on%20chatrooms.htm
And another:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/mar/24/media.business
http://www.website-law.co.uk/resources/website-libel.html
Don't know if the above are of any help. There's quite a bit on the net about online libel court cases, but a lot are in America.
Unfortunately the forum is for expat russians so the text is all in cyrric.
I think myself this person is onto a loser but it got me thinking about the consequences of online arguments on an internet forum and how maybe people dont think before they type, believing that because they are anonymously (sp?) sitting at a keyboard they are fireproof.
Not here though everyone is well behaved:p
Can I be really thick, please humour me how do you get a call from someone, do you have you personal details on the forum?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDK6ctRjqw
Yeah i've gotta ask this myself.
How did they contact you after only knowing you through the forum in the first place?
You an request IP details, and throught them get the name and address of the "account holder".
Saying that - I can't see a person being phoned and told that they were being sued!