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Australian Website Bans ... Australians

Posted by timothy on from the only-ones-who-could-in-a-place-like-this dept.

Nazlfrag writes "Earlier this month the blog and discussion forum ZGeek was sued for $42 million AUD over a user's comment. The plaintiffs are aspiring movie producers who claim to have lost a movie deal due to a 9/11 conspiracy discussion thread. Even though the initial lawsuit has been thrown out, and the company complied with lawyers' demands by taking down the offending posts, it is believed the plaintiffs will file suit again. In addition to suing the forum, in an Australian first they have been granted an injunction to force the ISPs to disclose the IP addresses of the two posters involved. Due to the risk of incurring even greater legal costs the company is closing its doors in Australia, and will ban their fellow countrymen from posting there again."

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  1. Re:Australia is a little jumpy right now by smash · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That's austria. I know you guys in the US are often geographically challenged, but come on... literally on the other side of the world.

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  2. i'm sorry by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it must be a freudian thing

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  3. Re:Australia is a little jumpy right now by Firethorn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the language, tone, not to mention the multitudes of errors, I'd say he was joking or trolling.

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  4. i'm sorry by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it must be freudian thing

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  5. Re:Poor Aussies by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

    Please, oh PLEASE tell me they called it "Cole's Law".

    Sorry, I'll go be quite now...

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  6. Re:Australia is a little jumpy right now by bertoelcon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Congratulation, you have been awarded "BIGGEST DUMBASS ON SLASHDOT" award for posting the dumbest comment I have ever read on here.

    Judging by your UID, there wasn't much competition. Its the dumbest I have seen too, but I know there is years worth that I have never seen.

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