Post Anonymous, Stay Anonymous

nate1138 writes "According to this story at the New York Times(Free reg. required), the courts may still have a little respect for our privacy. They struck down a company's request to have an anonymous, allegedly defamatory, poster unmasked. It's a small win, but a win." The intersting thing about this case is that the company was trying to stay anonymous while they attacked the poster's anonymity! That's a different wrinkle than we have seen before, and the courts seem to have made the right decision.

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This is funny.

[www.sorehands.com]

A company demanding identification of an anonymous poster, wishs to remain anonymous.

This is absolute bull. If they wished that this did not become publish, the information could have been relased an a protective order be issued -- making the name and information in the case known to the parties, but not to the public.

At first, I thought it was the another story of the courts taking a reaosnable position to online anonymity. I had to read Carl's article twice to make sure it said what it said -- "I want your private info, but I'm not telling you who is asking."

Brightpoint

[trust_no_one]

For those who didn't read the entire article, the last paragraph indicates that the evidence in the trial record points to the anonymous company being Brightpoint Inc. of Indianapolis, IN (ticker symbol CELL). They claim to be "the leading provider of outsourced services in the U.S. wireless telecommunications and data industry."