Can someone track where u live and your legal name just from your reply posting to an online news paper article even though u didnt enter any personal info and used a screen name that wasnt ur actual legal name? All it says is what city Im actually in under the posting.

Anyways, my buddy used my computer to post supposedly true offensive stuff about a person, and now a lawyer posted a reply saying that guy can sue for defamation and we all will be tracked with our legal names found. The lawyer guy said he recommends us to seek legal help for what my buddy and others did online to this guy. He is claiming its libel defamation. But its not my fault and I dont know the guy, but my buddy used my computer. This all has nothing to do with me and I dont even know this so called guy who was offended online. Can my computer be tracked, i.e. IP address, etc? Or is this guy just trying to scare off the people who are talking trash so his reputation wont be ruined?

 

and also, how can they track you if u were supposedly to use a computer at a library as well?

 

Here's the posting from this so called lawyer guy......

To all "brilliant bloggers", defamating individuals directly by name as the folowing have, "Class of 2011, Alumnus, Swordsmen, Grow up, Get serious, Kitty and the list goes on", I strongly suggest each of you consider consulting your legal options as you have compromised individuals by name, occupation, their children and families.

Each one of you will be "personally" named once the subpeona is in place and the City will politely place a column for everyone to read, share and blog with each of you as you have so kindly done in the past several weeks but not behind your blogging name, your LEGAL names.

Although, this is America and we do have the "freedom of speach" we do NOT have the right to defamate one's character or slander them by speculation beyond recognition. And for those of you whom do not understand:

Defamation of character includes slander (spoken derogatory statements), libel (written derogatory statements) or both. To constitute actionable defamation, the statements must be false or proven, and expose a person to hatred, ridicule or contempt. You also can pursue a case if the defamation harms you in your occupation. And in my clients case "it has"... In otherwords, "Brilliant Bloggers" "think before another word, name, or blatant statement is made" in regard to anyone at this school, their families, their wives or their children.

I encourage not only the NAMED victims to file a complaint in state court. You will simply need to identify the person making the defamatory statements and lay out the factual elements of your claim. Ask for actual damages incurred as well as punitive damages. The blogging names should become "public knowledge" very soon.

Good evening.

 

disclaimer: i'm not a lawyer, but i am in IT so i can speak to that part.

short answer yes... but don't worry all that much. the newspaper would have a record (theoretically) of your IP address. In theory, the internet service provider you use would have a record of what computer (yours) was issued that IP address. So, if someone wanted to find your name and such, they would have to:

1. contact the newspaper and get the IP from them.
2. contact your ISP and request your personal info from them.

In both those cases, the newspaper and ISP have no obligation to give anyone this information. I'm pretty sure the only reason they would is if they were issued a subpoena. Also, even proof that your IP was used to post those things does NOT prove that you yourself were using the computer at the time. If multiple other people had access, they don't really have a case... again I'm not a lawyer. the lawsuit in question would be similar to the ones filed by the recording industry against file sharers - complete BS but time consuming and expensive to fight.

also that 'lawyer' writes about as well as the average 6th grader so I personally wouldn't be worried.

 

Mr. B.W. Anderson of San Jose, CA loves sammiches.

Thank you.
That is all.

 

what do u mean?

 

Uhh, that was a statement. I think. . . as to whether it's libelous. . . well. . .

 

I think 8D is being facetious.

Speach=Speech

and honestly, as said above, i doubt you have anything to worry about from the "Lawyer" as he cannot speel or write properly. I wonder how he passed the BAR

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

 

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