Canadian Court Orders Site To ID Anonymous Posters

An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian court has ordered the owners of the FreeDominion.ca to disclose all personal information on eight anonymous posters to the chat site. The required information includes email and IP addresses. The court ruled that anonymous posters have no reasonable expectation of privacy, a major blow to online free speech in Canada."

Oh dear.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you imagine the political rhetoric if they found 4chan.

Damn anonymous cowards...

[Anonymous Coward]

They should be ashamed of themselves, posting anonymously.

Re:Damn anonymous cowards...

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous Cowards Anonymous.
Now Thursdays eight p.m. at an undisclosed location!

Re:Someones going to jail...

[arazor]

Charlie didn't ask for ID when I fought at La Choy, and Chun King. I saw my best friend's head explode at Margaret Cho.

Re:Good luck

[Anonymous Coward]

Improper meme application technique?

It's more likely than you think.

Re:Damn anonymous cowards...

[theskunkmonkey]

and...
John Wharfen
John Bigboote
John Smallberries
etc...

Re:Good luck

[Anonymous Coward]

Yo dawg, I herd you like memes...

Re:Damn anonymous cowards...

[andy_t_roo]

the next one.

Re:Good luck

[neoform]

I do the same when playing counter-strike.

I still haven't figured out why my ping is so bad though..

Re:Something interseting

[DaveV1.0]

I beg to differ. Slashdot response is highly dependent on whether the particulars are something they agree with or not.

Ex: Copyright enforcement is good when used to protect GNU and Linux, but is bad when applied to movies and music.

Re:Good luck

[Frigga's Ring]

Are you willing to back that statement up by giving us your real name and address?

Re:Good luck

[g2devi]

No problem, they can still find out who you are by looking at the email you must provide to use the service.

Once they know that your email is: [e-mail], all they need to do is contact the domain owner of ymo.us to tell you who you are.

Assuming that the necessary cross border agreements are in place to issue a court order to the domain named: ymo.us and assuming that you were 100% truthful (why wouldn't you be?), they can force the domain owner to tell the courts that [e-mail] belongs to "Monkey Dance" at "1 Microsoft Way". Police can take care of the rest.

So you see, your 7 proxies are no match for this well thought out law. ;-)

Here you go:

[BrokenHalo]

...just to save time, in the interest of transparency, here's my IP address:

127.0.0.1

Cheers

A. Coward.