FC: End of online anonymity without liability, from OJR.org

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[With respect to the columnist, his view seems entirely wrongheaded. First, 
the Ninth Circuit's ruling was not a final one; it merely said there was 
enough of a claim to go to trial. Second, the Ninth Circuit may have gone a 
little too far, and the judges themselves note this area of the law is a 
thicket. Third, and most importantly, the case had nothing to do with 
anonymous web surfing and instead was about gaining access to a "secure 
website under false pretenses" by using someone else's name and info 
without clear permission. (If it were about anonymous web surfing, the 
owner of the website never would have learned who the snooper was!) --Declan]

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> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:52:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Joshua S. Fouts" <fouts () rcf-fs usc edu>
> Reply-To: fouts () usc edu
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: End of Anonymity Without Liability?
>
>
> Dear Declan,
>
> Your readers might be interested in this recent commentary from our legal
> columnist Michael Overing, about the recent Hawaiian Airlines ruling...
>
> "End of Anonymity Without Liability?"
> A recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
> should provide pause to those interested in maintaining anonymity while
> surfing.
>
> http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=522
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>
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