He would never sue Google or Facebook or any giant because they have lawyers to fight this. He specifically targets the "little guys" who can't afford to defend themselves but can manage to throw together a few thousand dollars to make him go away.

Lots more info here: http://www.righthavenlawsuits.com/

Marco- I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this as a hoax, although bloggers may try to link this guy to Obama, Clinton, or GW Bush depending on what suits their audience the fact is there have been 100+ real victims of this guy so far from both liberal and conservative leaning blogs and forums.

So what happens when this guy does sue someone who had an article up, and that article is cached already?

and what happens in such a case as mine would be, where i'm literally broke..... I couldn't give the guy $50 let alone a couple of thousand.

He's after money... he'd probably look to settle for a couple thousand dollars paid over time- something you could live with but still be a major PITA... If it did go to trial you'd have to hire a lawyer or represent yourself in which case he'd probably win and you'd have a judgement against you. Might be able to garish wages of seize bank accounts... you'd probably have to declare bankruptcy.

I'm unemployed and going to school. my unemployment benefits run out in jan, then im funded entirely (and very meagerly) by the another agency for my schooling.

I think he would have a hard time coming after me. I'm Canadian anyway if that means anything.

It's hypothetical though, My board isn't live yet, and it's Canadian based(except the server who hosts me) so I doubt I'd see many articles from las vegas or wherever the articles are from that this asshat is suing for.

It's times like these I'm glad I live in a country like Australia. A case like this would get laughed out of court.

Aslong as I and my members keep linking back (and not using the full article) I am almost untouchable.

A very stupid way to make little money for guys like that, I think they lost more in reputation than they make money...
This story is overrated! sue me!

Internet Brands is being sued too!
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010...-legal-system/

Same thing here where I live as well. But in the USA is seems like everyone can sue everyone about almost anything.

I hope the new owners chew them up and spit them out tbo.

Apparently so, sadly it seems that way even cases in the past where burglars sue homeowners after being shot while in the process of robbing the house!

Basically this is what most of us in the south call "Hogwash" as it might be legal however to those with morals, values, and ethics it's flat out wrong... just like the Ally Bank commercials where the gentlemen gives the little girl a bike, she goes to pedal he stops her within the red box of tape about twice the width of the bike and explains in bank terms how she's not allowed to ride outside the red box...

I know...

me too...

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At least now it is crystal clear that full moderation control over all new content is necessary. If new content is not checked by staff, it can contain copyrighted material, which can result in such law suits.

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