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+- Browsing news articles can lead to a subpoena-> on Sunday January 27 2008, @02:53PM The Xoxo Reader
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The Xoxo Reader writes "A new filing in an internet defamation lawsuit reveals how the plaintiffs' lawyers have attempted to find the identities of the defendants, who posted under pseudonyms on a message board without IP logging. The defendants had posted links and excerpts of several webpages that mention the plaintiffs, including a Washington Post article, a college scholarship announcement, and a federal court opinion. Now the plaintiffs are asking the websites for logs of everybody who accessed those articles in the hours before they were posted. (All the more reason to read the web through Google cache!) The plantiff's motion for expedited discovery includes copies of the lawyers' letters to hosting providers, ISPs, and others. It also includes replies from the recipients, many of whom point out that the lawyers' requests are technically impossible to fulfill. No matter; the plaintiffs are asking the court to issue subpoenas anyway. A summary of the letters in the filing is posted in this thread. Slashdot previously covered the Autoadmit case here and here."
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