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11 commentsMonday, February 18, 2008

Whistleblowing Site Shut Down

Ordered offline by CA court

11 Comments

By Law Firm Website Design (WPN reader) - Mon, 05/05/2008 - 16:49

WOW

This is a crazy ruling. They have to be very careful when ruling on web related issues without thinking through the ramifications of future cases.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sat, 02/23/2008 - 12:18

It's a consent order, people

Dynadot agreed to this - quite probably in return for a promise by the scummy lawyers for BJB that they'd be left out of the litigation if they did.

The court order only implements the terms negotiated between Dynadot and BJB.

(That fact doesn't absolve Judge Jeffery White for abdicating his duties in any way, IMHO - most certainly he must be removed from the bench for allowing this.)

By KevinW (WPN reader) - Tue, 02/19/2008 - 20:13

Unbelieveable

Do they plan to go after the waybackmachine to?

By Scott (WPN reader) - Wed, 02/20/2008 - 12:17

Wikileaks mirrors are pretty widespread, too--

Try their IP address, or their Belgian mirror, or their Laos mirror, or their Christmas Island mirror, or any of a couple dozen other addresses.

I really don't see what Bank Julius Baer thought it would achieve, here...

By Guest (WPN reader) - Tue, 02/19/2008 - 16:35

These guys need to talk to

These guys need to talk to the folks over at The Pirate Bay

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 02/21/2008 - 13:12

These guys ARE the folks

These guys ARE the folks over at The Pirate Bay.

By JaanKanellis (WPN reader) - Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:24

redicrious, lol

Just another sad day in American law where judges dont know exactly how the web works and simplies throw a blanket solution over the issue.

By bj (WPN reader) - Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:11

IF the Court, in this case, worked as ** fast ** as they usually do, then there are copies of these docs, both hard and soft, all over the place. I'm shocked the whole website was taken down. This is a bad precedent. I agree with Patrick O'Brien.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Tue, 02/19/2008 - 03:52

hahah I wanna see them take

hahah I wanna see them take down Google. That would be something worth wathing for. :)

By Patrick O'Brien (WPN reader) - Mon, 02/18/2008 - 23:24

Whatever happened to the First Amendment?

WTF? Did someone revoke the First Amendment and not tell me?! Since when can a judge shut down an entire website because one litigant sues over certain documents posted on that website? I hope the Ninth Circuit reverses this with stunning alacrity.

By SEO Canada (WPN reader) - Mon, 02/18/2008 - 16:52

I'm surprised they ruled in

I'm surprised they ruled in favor of taking the site down all together instead of just pulling the offending material. But hey at least the Google cache is still viewable, maybe that lawsuit is coming next...