Lawsuit because of a link

Zsolt Hujoq

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Jan 25, 2006, 8:15:03 AM1/25/06

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Hi,

I'm not sure if the documents I found (see links)
really mean what I believe they do!

If I'm right, the plaintiffs in these actions ask for more
than 60 million US$ in damages for the fact that someone
did have a link on his website!

And if you look at the first filing, they did even file a
lawsuit against the wrong company...

I did google the guy the whole fuzz is about, and he appears
on this blacklist they write about since many, many years.
Not only on homepages, but also in news-archives...

So basically - if these guys are successfull - they could even
sue google for having a link pointing to these mailing-archives.

Has anybody an idea on how serious the community has to take
these lawsuits?

The link to the documents is http://mujweb.cz/www/sugar9/

regards

Barry Margolin

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Jan 25, 2006, 11:31:01 PM1/25/06

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In article <dr7tji$gur$1...@news.datemas.de>,
Zsolt Hujoq <huj...@freemail.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if the documents I found (see links)
> really mean what I believe they do!
>
> If I'm right, the plaintiffs in these actions ask for more
> than 60 million US$ in damages for the fact that someone
> did have a link on his website!

No they don't. They're suing over the slanderous and libelous
statements made about them on the web site. The only links they mention
are between www.reserve-bank.com and a forum on www.network54.com, but
they appear to be related sites -- when you follow the link to the forum
there's a big RESERVE-BANK.COM logo on the page.

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Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Brosi

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Jan 26, 2006, 2:22:57 AM1/26/06

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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:31:01 -0500
Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> No they don't. They're suing over the slanderous and libelous
> statements made about them on the web site. The only links they mention
> are between www.reserve-bank.com and a forum on www.network54.com, but
> they appear to be related sites -- when you follow the link to the forum
> there's a big RESERVE-BANK.COM logo on the page.

If you google for the list they are fighting, you find many, many hits
in mailing-lists. so the statement they are fighting was posted years
ago in newsgroups. and supereve looks like a newsgroup archive. you
find the posting they are fighting here, for example:

http://groups.google.ch/group/gov.us.topic.finance.securities/browse_frm/thread/e1a4dae0f55ae53a/4a8cfa1f2bd48cb4?lnk=st&q=%22Fulwood+Enterprises+%22&rnum=2#4a8cfa1f2bd48cb4

Therefore I'm wondering what's next: If they are successfull, will they sue all newsgroup-servers?

Stefaan A Eeckels

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Jan 26, 2006, 6:48:20 AM1/26/06

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They seem to be paranoid, claiming that Deutsche BundesBank and
Commerzbank conspire to discredit them. It probably is a scheme to try
and extract money from the banks through a settlement. Whether the Gold
Bonds they claim to own are genuine or fakes doesn't matter. The guys
seems to be confidence tricksters.

The "reserve-bank.com" web site looks like an attempt to solicit
donations from banks for a service they didn't ask for. The Internet
variant of the bills for inclusion in unknown "Business Directories"
that regularly land in my mailbox. Loopy scheme.

Network54 offers free (and paying) message boards (grandly called
"communities"). It would be amazing if they were held responsible for
the content of these boards.

All in all, it looks like a scheme hatched by a couple of con men. As
they say in Afrikaans: Moenie worry nie (don't worry).

Take care,

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Stefaan
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