Publishing Now Counts As Now

wik writes "The New York Times reports that the statute of limitations for defamation is one year from the date of posting a page on the web. The courts had to decide whether the posting date or the last download date of a web page constitutes the publication date."

Comments

Re:Not necessarily good...

[Salsaman]

Yeah, he'd probably eat your balls !!

interesting sig

[BlueboyX]

I can't help but think that there are two exceptions to that rule. Doctors and lawyers are two professions that have basically been 'set up' so that they are quite profitable and legal, and enjoyable to the people interested in that kind of thing. The rich gotta set up their kids with good jobs somehow. :P

I think that the barriers in place to keep losers out of the medical field are reasonable (dont want an idiot operating on people etc) and there will always be sick people. However, lawyers... I don't think anything bad about their barriers of entry either, but they do things to keep themselves important. Like endless laws that are intentionally designed so that no normal (or even reasonally above average + educated) person can read them. Also the odd suits that we all know too well....

Well, at least this one went well. But you have to wonder why it was necessary at all. :P

Re:happy 4th of july

[rprebel]

You'd better watch what you say. If you're not careful, Dubya might decide to invade and take over Canada. I just hope he has a platoon with a spare afternoon to take care of it...