Fergie's Tech Blog

Legal Defense Fund: p2pnet Under Attack by Kazaa

The excellent web site for news and commentary about p2p file sharing, p2pnet.net, published by Jon Newton, is being sued for libel by Kazaa. The basis for the suit is some negative commentary about someone at Kazaa by Jon's readers (i.e. not by Jon himself) in the Comments section.

Since p2pnet.net is in Canada, that's where the suit is being brought.

Cases like this are really important. They are a direct attack on freedom of speech. Big corporations with lots of money, using their money to foment frivolous litigation to shut down their critics, cannot be allowed to get away with this type of conduct, or you -- the reader -- will never be able to go anywhere to actually find out the truth.

posted by Fergie @ 5/24/2006 07:05:00 AM