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Thursday, September 01, 2005

WSJ: Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers

Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers
In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers.

Traffic-Power.com1 sued Aaron Wall, who maintains a blog on search engine optimization – tactics companies use to get themselves to appear higher in searches at Google, Yahoo and elsewhere – alleging defamation and publication of trade secrets. The suit, filed in a Nevada state court earlier this month, also listed as defendants several unnamed users of the blog.

At issue are statements posted in the comments section of Mr. Wall's blog, SEOBook.com2. Many blogs allow readers to post comments, often anonymously, and Mr. Wall's blog included several reader submissions that blasted tools sold by Traffic-Power.com...


Deja vu? Oh wait, this is America...

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posted by YC at 12:59 AM

11 Comments:

  • hey how're you doing over across the seas? has school started yet? send me your email address (I only have your old official address).

    By Blogger katongking, at 9/12/2005 10:52 AM  

  • Maybe you should take note of those blog comments spammers too... it's even worse to be sued because some spammers leave some undesirable comments on your blog!

    By Blogger Beng, at 10/04/2005 9:27 PM  

  • Thanks Beng. They're a real pain.

    By Blogger YC, at 10/15/2005 11:19 PM  

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    By Blogger Bloggy, at 10/16/2005 2:36 PM  

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    By Blogger Free Traffic System, at 10/17/2005 12:34 PM  

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    By Blogger nordickid, at 10/19/2005 5:18 AM  

  • Dear Sir/Madam

    Hi, my name jon,
    We were juz setting up a new Singapore Blogsite list website.
    The reason i email is i was wondering if u would like to JOIN in to our blog toplist.
    Iz a standard toplist website wif web statistic review.
    http://Singaporeblog.net click join to sign in...
    Appreciate it if u do join us...

    regards,
    jon loh
    http://www.Singaporeblog.net

    By Blogger jonboy60, at 3/09/2006 5:03 PM  

  • Hey YC,

    Not sure if you are still updating this but just like to keep you in the loop that my new blog address is

    http://jaywalk.blog-city.com

    Cheers.

    By Blogger JayWalk, at 4/10/2006 1:13 PM  

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  • forgive others but not yourself........................................

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