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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Crybaby Kazaa sues P2PNet for libel

Kazaa is suing P2P news-site P2Pnet for libel over a comment ~~left by a poster~~ reprinted from a post on one of P2Pnet's message-boards. This is about as bogus as it comes -- real crybaby stuff, wah, someone said something nasty about me, I'll sue the site on which it appears -- and P2PNet deserves better. They're raising funds for their defense, and I'll pitch in a hundred bucks once it's live. Kazaa should know better -- this is an embarrassment to the company, far more damning than anything that could possibly have been said about them on the board itself. Link (via Recording Industry vs the People)

Update: An anonymous reader points out that the post was subsequently reprinted in the body of a P2Pnet article -- but I don't buy it. If allegation is false, correct it. This kind of libel suit is the last refuge of the coward, for people who don't believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech.

posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:36:14 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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