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Subject: Re: Slander accusations which took the CCC Search Engine down

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:38:40 12/15/03

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On December 15, 2003 at 04:10:59, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>Hi,
>
>As you can read in a thread below Lech Mazur won't be able to host the search
>engine anymore because a lawyer (or someone pretending to be) complained to his
>ISP that some messages which were posted on CCC (and found with the search
>engine) contained slanderous alegations about his client.
>
>I have received some days ago this e-mail which was addressed to the ISP (my
>address was in its CC: ) but I ignored this message, I thought that the search
>engine was in fair use according to copyright laws and I found ridiculous the
>claim to remove some message from the archive, i.e. I thought it is similar to
>asking the same thing at Google, to remove some pages from its cache.
>
>At the moment I will not post the said e-mail here as I am not sure if posting
>it will not make me liable to any kind of suit.
>
>What I ask here is your opinions about this matter : do you think that the
>search engine can contain the incriminated thread (in which as far as I remember
>was somebody making comments about somebody else's site) ? Any legal opinions ?
>
>So far I am sure that I can't be forced to delete messages if the author or
>somebody else requests so, since the search engine makes fair use of the
>original message. But what if somebody asks me to delete a thread because it
>containts slanderous accusations against him ?????
>
>Andrei
>
>P.S. I am still looking for a linux machine to host the search engine, anybody
>feels brave enough ?


Andrei,

You are probably the victim of a stalker. Some months ago I received a whole
series of similar threats. Just don't respond, it will pass. The moment you
receive a written letter from a lawyer send by regular mail there is still
plenty of time to act. Let the person first proof he/she is a real personality.

Don't worry and keep up the good work you are doing.

My best,

Ed



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