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UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity

Posted by timothy on from the firstname-lastname-at-someplace dept.

BoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users."

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing.

    Because I don't want you to know who I am.

  2. I'm shocked and amazed. by bobdotorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not by the court's order, but that the Daily Mail actually published a decent, non-sensationalistic article.

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    1. Re:I'm shocked and amazed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you think that's weird, check out the comments - they're fairly sensible. I think they must have a problem with their server.

  3. Re:Caught? by auntieNeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heh, something tells me that Chinese proxies wouldn't work well for editing Wikipedia. :(

  4. Re:Somebody had to add it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, you could have been the 1,000,000th person to post that reference in that thread and would have won a brand-new car!

  5. Re:Somebody had to add it by Auraiken · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought that this was way funnier without your disclaimer.

  6. Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL by zonky · · Score: 3, Funny

    Check out the awesome photo selection on this article.

    God knows why they're using a distorted aspect-ratio video screen cap for Mr Cable thou down the bottom.....

  7. Re:Caught? by Shakrai · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh, something tells me that Chinese proxies wouldn't work well for editing Wikipedia. :(

    Sure they would. Just depends on the edit that you are making ;) I always use Chinese proxies when I edit this article to reflect the truth that the events mentioned therein are nothing more than Western propaganda ;)

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  8. Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail by easyTree · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blackmail is a crime because if blackmail were not a crime people would be more likely to engage in self-help to rid themselves of the blackmailer. Such self-help could manifest itself in socially destructive ways.

    Removing the blackmailer gene from the gene pool?

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  9. Re:Whistle blowers don't involve people's children by martin-boundary · · Score: 2, Funny

    Depends. I once wrote to George Bush Sr a letter threatening to blow the whistle to the whole world that George Bush Jr is a good for nothing drunk, unless he sent me one million dollars. I never got a reply, though...

  10. Re:Tor by Fnord666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget TOR. What if he used a library, coffee shop, rest stop, or other access point?

    Well, if it's in the UK then there are probably 4 or 5 different CCTV tapes of everyone using that access point.

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  11. Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only a screwed-up unworkable society could ever have unrestrained free speech.

    Hey, leave the US out of this.

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