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Hi Mandela,

In most of the forums that I frequent on internet, these kind of risks seemed to be eliminated, by some user agreements or forum rules. There is declared that --- all content in user messages may not be controlled by the mod/admins ---and all the responsability of the message is directly bound to the poster... So the owners or admins are not liable to the eventual causes of any written contents of user's messages. AS:

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http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=115345

http://arstechnica.com/site/forum-use.ars

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=760666

Seems sufficient and preventive. I had detailed dialogs with some admins on other forums to be convinced about the subject. But I am not in this juridical domain, Mandela. If you give more information, thus people will gladly learn about the situations.

Interesting.

Here is a quote, US law: "The two primary areas of liability that service providers have been held liable for are intellectual property and defamation. Liability will in either scenario tends to hinge on whether the court regards the conduct of the service provider to be analogous to that of a publisher or a distributor (book seller, library, printer). In making the determination, courts have taken the following factors (among others) into consideration: whether the service provider holds itself out as having editorial control over the content of its service; whether the service provider actually exercises control over content; whether the service provider has implemented policies and procedures to control content; whether the service provider employs or contracts with people to monitor forums and postings; and whether the service provider uses technology to control user access or content. If a service provider is deemed to be analogous to a publisher, the standard of liability to which it is held is higher than if it is deemed to be a mere distributor (i.e., the "publisher service provider" is generally presumed to have had knowledge of the actionable conduct as if it had committed the underlying actionable conduct, whereas with the"distributor service provider" it must be shown that the provider either knew or had reason to know of the actionable conduct)."

Here is a website with some U.S. findings: http://www.cyberlibel.com/liabilit.html

Fascinating.

And do you know what the difference between a lawyer and a catfish is? One is a scum sucking bottom dwelling scavanger, and the other is just a fish.

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