p2pnet - rss feed: Crookes vs Geist
p2pnet.net news:- There are several reports (here, here, and here) that Wayne Crookes, who previously launched suits against a wide range of parties including Wikipedia, Yahoo, and a domain name registrar, has sued me in B.C. courts for defamation.
I have not been served with the suit, but the reports indicate that I am being sued for an allegedly defamatory third party comment on my site that I took down, and for writing about, and linking to, P2PNet.net, which in turn linked to another site that allegedly contained a defamatory posting.
In other words, I’m reportedly being sued for maintaining a blogroll that links to a site that links to a site that contains some allegedly defamatory third party comments.
Michael Geist
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]
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