Comments on: p2pnet sued for libel

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:59:31 +0000

But I am ONE American who is behind Jon ALL the way. I’ve even made a contribution to his Defense Fund. Will YOU?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:57:36 +0000

And it’s being sued by Kazaa CEO…from Aussieland???

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 May 2006 14:27:11 +0000

I’ve been doing some research on libel. For one, most countries consider libel as being directed toward an individual, not a corporation. Only the UK (could I find), is where libel can be directed toward a corporation, and an individual(s). Yet, suing a website that doesn’t “review” all posts for such derogative comments toward an individual/corporation shouldn’t be at fault due to the fact that it is not the opinion of the site/site owner, and such that the owner/site should not be liable for such a response. Why would they go “chicken-picking” for sites that have information that “defames” them, when there are possibly hundreds, if not thousands, of other sites that have posts from users that post of their negative opinions toward a corporation/individual.

Something like this will be causing more and more people to hate Sharman Networks (and, imagine that, they are defaming themselves in the process!)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 25 May 2006 01:16:50 +0000

Just like the RIAA truly robbing innocent people in the US while the government is not doing it’s job!

There is another story of big company trying to crush an individual for money!

Fine Ms Parasite Nikki Hemming You are an old ugly bitch in an out and if you don’t want libel wait to see what I am going to post on internet soon not on this forum though.

OH! And also this: hiring a hit man is definitively way shipper and effective than hiring a lawyer for a small guy to defend himself against big crappy corporation such as you. Just a though.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:50:45 +0000

yes, best of luck that no one will every dig down here to see what you’ve done to worsen this situation with no attempt to do anything other than turn it into a media event for yourself…my thoughts are with anyone who suffers the abuse you are now openly condoning with the feeble plea that this is an open content site and other that its your site and you are the only one earning any money off it it has nothing to do with you….yeh, good luck with that

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:48:22 +0000

Come on Jon you are being a little cute aren’t you……. looks like you had a chance to not humiliate yourself and deal with this privately but you wanted to have your fifteen minutes of fame and go on to incite the repetition of the alleged libelous material…eyes wide open and happy for this one to be peddled dishonestly…it does you no credit to mislead people

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 May 2006 16:46:53 +0000

thats cuz they distribute and against its TOS. This isn’t

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 May 2006 16:43:07 +0000

best of luck to you with this jon..you’ve helped me in the past with your site, and you don’t deserve to fall to this bullshit that undermines freedom of speech and journalism. My thoughts are with you, David.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:35:11 +0000

Everything the pirate bay did on ebay was taken off before anything ever went the final stage.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:26:14 +0000

Kazaa sucks, its not a doubt Jon would not take Kazaa advertisement money if they offered it. He was probably never offered an advertisement by them. General P2P users hate Kazaa…thats why there is so much negetivity towards it. Kazaa has only brought it upon itself.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 21 May 2006 17:36:51 +0000

hehe

Put up an ebay thingy.

#1 Offer an EXCLUSIVE NEWS interview and so forth on the law suite etc Saying you are selling the rights to this exclusive interview to pay for legal fee’s!!!

Start the bidding at 1000 CDN

also put a link on it for donations.

maybe you will get lucky :/

#2 Offer an exclusive position on P2Pnet.net as Editor (moderator) with no salary!! Thats right, bet on this position to help with legal fee’s. The first qualifying sane bidder will have the right to help the p2p community as EDITOR (mod) and win this non-salary job for 6-months!! heh :/
also put a link on it for donations. :/

#3. on ebay.ca say you are looking for a lawyer! The winning bid by this lawyer will have the opportunity to add to his curriculum vitae a LAND MARK CDN SUPREME Court case added to it! :/
also put a link on it for donations. :/

anyhow, you get the point, milk it for what its worth and maybe generate some legal cash for the case against you… or maybe my idea’s just suck :/

Hell if the Pirates-Bay can do it (and they distribute), you can do it!!

get creative to generate $…………

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 21 May 2006 08:28:36 +0000

I wish you only the best — I’ll click your ads everyday from now on. Good luch, I wish I’d been able to do more.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 21 May 2006 04:54:16 +0000

Hey dumbass, this site is Canadian and Sharman networks is in Australia. Quit talking out your ass. No Americans have anything to do with this.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 21 May 2006 04:04:19 +0000

Jon,
none of us expect you to be some kind of superhereo . we didnt understan that the laws in canada can make you liable for individual posts …. if this is the case you should have set it up like slyck requiring registration- this will keep the assholes off….
the problem is that it looks like you are anti kazaa which we dont think is a good thing wither- is this because they dont buy ads from you as we never see them on your site

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:43:04 +0000

Easy to say fight this… its already a supreme court case, and if he fights, chances are he will also have to go to appeal.

This is going to be damn expensive… No average working schmuck can afford this. This is big money and big moeny to appeal.

If you read the BC Inet libel cases on the net, most had to go to appeal.

And unfortunately, in the BC courts eyes, The procecution doesn’t have to do much aside from make the law suite, It auto-sides with them, and biased to the the procesution unless jon proves otherwise.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:36:55 +0000

Only been here a few times.. But hopefully other sites Will SUPPORT you and make a fund for you as well…

I wish you luck in your fight!

No one will look at you different if you bow out of it. It will get very costly, no average joe can afford this, and the end result could be bad news (hope not).

….and because of what? Some AU news paper with the AU judges comments and prosecution comments said they may have offshore accounts. And some 15-yr old kids reads it different and adds to it and puts his own comments to it! Sheeeez

Wish you the best.

If any one can get/buy the court transcripts of the AU trial(s) with the above commentary by the judge/prosecution, pls do and post.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:31:35 +0000

Get your ass in gear and ready to fight this all the way to Canada’s Supreme Court. We don’t live in a litigious society and be it Americans or now these fucking Australians, let’s not allow them to make a mockery of our judicial system.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:55:55 +0000

I think it’s becuase p2pnet articals are so heavily syndicated (rss)across the web and this story (true or not) kept spreading like mad.

Jon, it’s awesome that your site gets so much attention and syndication. Sorry that this is a result of that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:05:12 +0000

I hate the idea of asking for financial help, but I’m definitely going to have to.

I’ve now filed a court ‘appearance’. This tells Sharman Networks and Fleming that I’m going to defend the lawsuit, with all that implies.

And that’s going to cost money.

I’ll be doing a brief post on this a little later today.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 20 May 2006 16:17:51 +0000

I back this.

Can Jon give us a mail address?

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com