WRT 16 | 1656 ☆☆ Company Representative
Jan 22, 2010 | #1
Dummies, you know who you are. Given your horrifyingly low IQ levels (sad but true), I will try to make this as simple as possible:
What does libel mean? Libel is a false, published statement, whose intent is malicious. It must be directed at a living person and/or entity. Now, there are a couple of problems with your "Libellers and Liars" mantra:
a) You are neither persons nor business entities but abnormal creatures which crypozoologists find fascinating;
b) A forum user name cannot libel another forum username. Usernames cannot scream `libel.'
Let me give you an example: Researcher, otherwise known as the Imbecile, cannot run off to its lawyer and say "WRT `libelled' me, Researcher, on essayscam." For it to be libel, it has to be false, malicious and directed towards an ACTUAL living person or entity. Researcher is a handle and not an actual person (yes, it is a creature but besides that - the legal name by which that creature goes, has not been mentioned).
The dummy dumb dumbs may counter the above by arguing that we libel business entities - competitors. Again, this is not true:
For the statement to be considered libel, it has to be both malicious and false:
a) Stating that essaywriters is dishonest is not libel. It lies about its writers' qualifications, about its nationality and its quality of service.
b) Stating that essaybrunch is a horrifyingly rotten choice of a name for an academic research website is not libel - it is a well-reasoned opinion.
c) Stating that masteressay.com is a low quality website which is Pakistani, not British, is not libel. You see, the statement is not false.
d) Stating that priorityessays, classaessays, academicawriters, etc "borrowed" their webcopy from masterpapers, academia-research and Academic Answers, is not libel. Until the end of November, this statement was true and the evidence is widely available. Hence, it is not libel.
Now that we have explained (in Simple Simon terms) what libel is not, let's see what it is:
It is naming a specific company and insisting that it is a scam and cheap-quality website and not providing any supporting evidence. Making the statement, in itself, is not libel but doing in spite of the complete lack of evidence, is. When made with malicious intent, it is libel and when made by a competitor for the purpose of harming economic interest, it is damn serious.
What can the named and targeted company do? It can obtain a court order, demanding the revelation of the poster's IP and proceed to take that person to the cleaners. Let us assume that a proxy IP is used. Simple ... when an IP is detected as a proxy, the proxy provider is forced to cooperate, as are the email providers (when any sign on to a forum, they provide an email address). Significantly, people connect to proxies through their ISP and, interestingly enough, cheap proxy connections drop all the time without the user even really knowing. The point is - electronic traces exist and it is not at all difficult to identify the poster. Costly, yes but, difficult, not really ...
Some assume that because they are not located in the United States or the UK (UK court rulings are enforceable throughout much of the Commonwealth), they are safe. Not very true. Yes, you may escape having to pay damages, etc but, your websites will be taken down, your domains will be cancelled, search engines will comply with a ban against you and your hosting provider will cancel your hosting account. In other words, as a business, your online presence will be annihilated, completely obliterated ...
Conclusion: when you criticise a website, make sure that you are not promoting false and malicious statements.
What does libel mean? Libel is a false, published statement, whose intent is malicious. It must be directed at a living person and/or entity. Now, there are a couple of problems with your "Libellers and Liars" mantra:
a) You are neither persons nor business entities but abnormal creatures which crypozoologists find fascinating;
b) A forum user name cannot libel another forum username. Usernames cannot scream `libel.'
Let me give you an example: Researcher, otherwise known as the Imbecile, cannot run off to its lawyer and say "WRT `libelled' me, Researcher, on essayscam." For it to be libel, it has to be false, malicious and directed towards an ACTUAL living person or entity. Researcher is a handle and not an actual person (yes, it is a creature but besides that - the legal name by which that creature goes, has not been mentioned).The dummy dumb dumbs may counter the above by arguing that we libel business entities - competitors. Again, this is not true:
For the statement to be considered libel, it has to be both malicious and false:
a) Stating that essaywriters is dishonest is not libel. It lies about its writers' qualifications, about its nationality and its quality of service.
b) Stating that essaybrunch is a horrifyingly rotten choice of a name for an academic research website is not libel - it is a well-reasoned opinion.
c) Stating that masteressay.com is a low quality website which is Pakistani, not British, is not libel. You see, the statement is not false.
d) Stating that priorityessays, classaessays, academicawriters, etc "borrowed" their webcopy from masterpapers, academia-research and Academic Answers, is not libel. Until the end of November, this statement was true and the evidence is widely available. Hence, it is not libel.
Now that we have explained (in Simple Simon terms) what libel is not, let's see what it is:
It is naming a specific company and insisting that it is a scam and cheap-quality website and not providing any supporting evidence. Making the statement, in itself, is not libel but doing in spite of the complete lack of evidence, is. When made with malicious intent, it is libel and when made by a competitor for the purpose of harming economic interest, it is damn serious.
What can the named and targeted company do? It can obtain a court order, demanding the revelation of the poster's IP and proceed to take that person to the cleaners. Let us assume that a proxy IP is used. Simple ... when an IP is detected as a proxy, the proxy provider is forced to cooperate, as are the email providers (when any sign on to a forum, they provide an email address). Significantly, people connect to proxies through their ISP and, interestingly enough, cheap proxy connections drop all the time without the user even really knowing. The point is - electronic traces exist and it is not at all difficult to identify the poster. Costly, yes but, difficult, not really ...
Some assume that because they are not located in the United States or the UK (UK court rulings are enforceable throughout much of the Commonwealth), they are safe. Not very true. Yes, you may escape having to pay damages, etc but, your websites will be taken down, your domains will be cancelled, search engines will comply with a ban against you and your hosting provider will cancel your hosting account. In other words, as a business, your online presence will be annihilated, completely obliterated ...
Conclusion: when you criticise a website, make sure that you are not promoting false and malicious statements.
