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  • #2
    Bamboozled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bamboozled


    You need to be logged into view that link.

    My own experience on something similar - I ran a board a while back and was requested by a solicitor acting on a members behalf for viewing access to the old database which had a thread that slagged him off. We had changed servers before the solicitor contacted me and deleted a lot of rubbish threads so i couldnt help, and old back ups were deleted, but yer man had a printed copy of the thread anyway. I heard no more about it but I would suggest you print a copy in case the thread goes missing since you now have a link posted and that thread will be getting visitors though they cant see it.

    Its late, i'm tired and I cant say what I mean to say but I hope you get the gist of it.


  • #3
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    As a matter of interest, where must any action be brought? Does it have to be brought in the claimants country, the admin country or where the host is?


  • #4
    GilGrissom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭GilGrissom


    They have now deleted the offending thread. Does this clear them of any liability for a defamatory posting if it is removed?


  • #5
    Bamboozled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bamboozled


    Are you sure its deleted? It may have been moved from the public's eye if there was a lot of traffic generated from posting the link, in case something comes about it.

    As far as my involvement with the example I posted above, the thread writer/poster and the person it was about were only invovled in the case. I was brought into it because the solicitor wanted to see the original thread, I had access and owned the site and paid for the hosting and that was the only reason. Nothing more involved me, the hosting company weren't involved. It was all between the guy that posted the stuff and the guy who it was about.

    It was a while ago though so things may have changed.


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