Barrichello wins legal action

Rubens Barrichello has won an interesting legal action in Brazil against the web community orkut.com, a by-invitation chat room offered by Google on which people publish their opinions on whatever subject they choose. Barrichello applied to have seven communities closed down, claiming that they were offensive and perjorative. Judge Francisco Loureiro of the 4th Civil Court in Sao Paulo ruled that Google has five days to take down the sites or will have to pay $500 a day in fines if the communities are not shut down.

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So does this set a legal precedence for other virtual internet communities who are critical of F1 racers?!

Not sure what the back ground is or what Rubens was trying to achieve?!

 

You see Impy, you should be carefull about slagging off Montoya or Villeneuve!!
We know where you live!!

 

Not unless you have the legal power of the recording industry I think that this would be fruitless. Close down one site and new one's would just mushroom up all over.

 

I don't know in the States, but here in UK, that could be possible to a point.
There is at the moment, a court action being engineered by an author against a website that allowed malicious rumours against her and her books.
The website 'owner' could be found guilty of failing to monitor properly his/her forum.
The outcome could be a court injunction to close the website, and/or liability to be paid by the website owner to the injured party.
This hasn't reach the High Civil Court yet, but already there is panic among forums/chatlines, etc...

 

Actually you don't!

 

Are you kidding?
There is the technology to pin-point the origin of any email message if need be.
How do you think they pick up hackers, spam originators, or even I would say in the most extreme cases, terrorists who use the internet?

 

Are you kidding?
There is the technology to pin-point the origin of any email message if need be.
How do you think they pick up hackers, spam originators, or even I would say in the most extreme cases, terrorists who use the internet?

 

Are you kidding?
There is the technology to pin-point the origin of any email message if need be.
How do you think they pick up hackers, spam originators, or even I would say in the most extreme cases, terrorists who use the internet?

 

I did not quite catch that William....

 

Sorry about that!

It only shows how clumsy I am with a computer!

 

I am not a prime target for hackers, spamers and terrorists! An email message can be pin-pointed to an IP address. Where the IP address take you is another story!?!

In either case, the necessary precautions have been taken!