The Internet is still a very grey area for issues of libel and the like. I remember a case against that was bought against Yahoo for comments posted on a newsgroup on a site that was hosted on thier servers. It wasn't the owner of the newsgroup itself that was held responsible, but Yahoo for hosting the site. Its much the same as a newspaper that might publish something considered libelous by a party, it would be the newspaper in court, not the individual writer. With this in mind Submerge are probably safe unless they host thier own website, though thier hosts may request they remove the comments if things were taken further.
Personally I agree that Dan Bell may have gone about things in the wrong manner, but I guess this depends on what communication Bell may have had with Ovum prior to posting his letter. Certainly I think he should have contacted them first regarding this. Though his story does paint a rather a rather annoying figure of Wink as some kind of long term obbsessive musical stalker, so I guess is Dan has felt this way for some time its understandable that he would think enough is enough. It is a worry though that Wink seems to be more on the ball with the legal side of things. Interesting to see where this goes, though having listened to the 2 tracks that Dennis posted I have to admit I've heard more blatent rip offs in my time, derivative as Wink's track may be. Shame things have to come to this. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digital-soul.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
