UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity

BoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users."

Let me be the first to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing.

Because I don't want you to know who I am.

I'm shocked and amazed.

[bobdotorg]

Not by the court's order, but that the Daily Mail actually published a decent, non-sensationalistic article.

Re:Caught?

[auntieNeo]

Heh, something tells me that Chinese proxies wouldn't work well for editing Wikipedia. :(

Re:Somebody had to add it

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, you could have been the 1,000,000th person to post that reference in that thread and would have won a brand-new car!

Re:I'm shocked and amazed.

[Anonymous Coward]

If you think that's weird, check out the comments - they're fairly sensible. I think they must have a problem with their server.

Re:Somebody had to add it

[Auraiken]

I thought that this was way funnier without your disclaimer.

Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL

[zonky]

Check out the awesome photo selection on this article. [dailymail.co.uk]

God knows why they're using a distorted aspect-ratio video screen cap for Mr Cable thou down the bottom.....

Re:Caught?

[Shakrai]

Heh, something tells me that Chinese proxies wouldn't work well for editing Wikipedia. :(

Sure they would. Just depends on the edit that you are making ;) I always use Chinese proxies when I edit this [wikipedia.org] article to reflect the truth that the events mentioned therein are nothing more than Western propaganda ;)

Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail

[easyTree]

Blackmail is a crime because if blackmail were not a crime people would be more likely to engage in self-help to rid themselves of the blackmailer. Such self-help could manifest itself in socially destructive ways.

Removing the blackmailer gene from the gene pool?

Re:Whistle blowers don't involve people's children

[martin-boundary]

Depends. I once wrote to George Bush Sr a letter threatening to blow the whistle to the whole world that George Bush Jr is a good for nothing drunk, unless he sent me one million dollars. I never got a reply, though...

Re:Tor

[Fnord666]

Forget TOR. What if he used a library, coffee shop, rest stop, or other access point?

Well, if it's in the UK then there are probably 4 or 5 different CCTV tapes of everyone using that access point.

Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail

[tehcyder]

Only a screwed-up unworkable society could ever have unrestrained free speech.

Hey, leave the US out of this.