Actress sues 102 posters
p2pnet.net news:- South Korean actress Ko So-young says she’s angry with people who posted stories about her private life. So she’s suing them.
All 102 of them.
“According to the Deryook International Law Firm, Ko’s legal representative, it has secured 137 IP addresses from which the groundless rumors are believed to have been spread,” says The Korea Times, going on:
“Initially, the 35-year-old actress took action against 35 out of the 137 for allegedly posting false and malicious comments about her on the Internet. However, on Wednesday she decided to sue the remaining 102,” according to her lawyer.
“As an unmarried woman and a public entertainer, I felt shock and shame, but I refrained from direct response and instead asked the portal sites to delete the comments, hoping that the rumors would naturally be revealed to be false,” the Digital Chosun Ilbo has Ko declaring.
“But every time I was the subject of discussion, these lies were deliberately repeated and spread off-line. I have no choice but to sue the writers.”
Adds the story:
“People who write malicious Internet messages can be punished under the Information Protection Law and criminal laws. Rumor-mongers can be sentenced to up to seven years in prison or fined up to W50 million.
“Last January, Lim Su-Kyung, who visited North Korea in 1989, sued 25 netizens who wrote malicious messages mocking her son’s death. Prosecutors fined 14 of the writers W1 million each for the insults. It was the first time netizens had been prosecuted for the content of Internet messages.
“Last June, Kim Tae-hee sued 34 netizens who wrote malicious messages about her alleged marriage to a chaebol son and her pregnancy. Eleven were indicted but Kim withdrew the charges.”
In Canada, p2pnet is currently being sued by a Vancouver businessman Wayne Crookes merely for linking to a story he doesn’t like.
Crookes is also suing Wikimedia, Google and Yahoo, as well a number of others, for the same thing.
In Hong Kong, Woo Tai-wai, 48, has been fined $HK5,000 ($640) for “incorporating a pornographic link in an internet message”.
Also See:
The Korea Times – Actress Ko Files Complaint Against Internet Surfers, May 23, 2007
Digital Chosun Ilbo – Actress Ko So-young Sues Netizens for Libel, May 23, 2007
linking to a story – Wayne Crookes sues the Net: III, May 5, 2007
pornographic link – Man fined in Hong Kong in landmark internet porn case, May 11, 2007
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May 23rd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
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October 7th, 2007 at 12:44 am
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