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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. Somebody had to add it by kwiqsilver · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Go Office Space on it's ass!