Legal Fund

[anto1208]

The truth is never libellous .

[Burnsie]

obviously i've no idea about the specifics of what is at stake here, but i could recommend http://www.digitalrights.ie/ for resources about online liability, as well as plenty of moral support from some civil liberties zealots..

[pete]

MCD Promoters sued Boards.ie

Click (http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/index.php/2006/07/27/libel-mcd-oxygen-and-boardsie/)

[Dr.Nightdub]

I'll chip in.

"You got to fight the power
Fight the powers that be"
- Public Enemy

Though at times, I think online criticism simply isn't going far enough:

"The only way to change things
Is to shoot men who arrange things."
- Dexy's

[Peadar]

I'm not willing to contribute without condition.
Lets say some raving Dundalk fan said something completely inaccurate about some organisation, then there's not a hope in hell that I'd fork out, to defend them.
If I felt the forum was being bullied and freedom of speech was being denied, then I'd consider making a contribution towards the cost of defending its stance.

[WeAreRovers]

This may get worse before it gets better...

Agreed, that's why it's imperative that we stand up to this bullying. In the long term it'll be better for the game in this country.

As we all know, we as fans have the game's best interests at heart. That sense of righteousness helped sustain us when we were getting rid of the cancer that affected Rovers. When you're right and your motives are pure it's very hard to be defeated.

KOH

[soylent green]

MCD Promoters sued Boards.ie

Click (http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/index.php/2006/07/27/libel-mcd-oxygen-and-boardsie/)

There are a couple of cases heading towards the Supreme Court according to an article in the Irish Times on January 20th (in relation to the An Fear Rua GAA orientated website). I've copied the relevant section below.


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Having studied for and taken a law degree when in the public service, he has a natural wariness about the still unfolding shape of on-line defamation. Although there are some cases in the system the Supreme Court has yet to make a determination on the parameters of internet responsibility.

He hopes the bona fides of website administrators will be taken into account but no one knows and he doesn't wish to be the one finding out in some scaldingly expensive action down in the Four Courts.

Every day he checks the discussion board for the latest threads and also receives the assistance of several contributors, also with legal backgrounds, who contact him as soon as they spot anything with potential legal ramifications.

This is no guarantee against trouble. "You watch as much as you can," he says, "but often it can be the 41st posting on a thread that goes mad after 40 perfectly reasonable ones."

It's worked well so far and only twice has the site been contacted directly to take down a thread - and in one case it had already been deleted.

Cahill accepts three is also what he terms "a propriety issue". Anonymous posters can say what they like about anyone and it's up to the site to filter out the unacceptable, whether or not it's potentially defamatory. Tighter registration rules have been introduced in response to this and evolving technology.

[BohDiddley]

Can you tell us if it is defamation or copyright, or something else?

[kdjaC]

Would also chip in, but moving the website to another hosting company outside certain borders would also do the job.

Boards thing is still ongoing MCD havent a leg to stand on but have the money to win it :confused: (dont know how the courts work must be a Shels thing)


kdjac

[scoops85]

well i wonder if they could stop this?

fai-lure.blogspot.com

anybody who wants to contribute pm me

[John83]

All they'd have to do is rattle blogspot.com's cage and it could get taken down. If you're going to do a blog like that, get it hosted properly.

It sounds interesting, but I suspect it would wind up being a bit ranty and not factual enough for my liking.

[blackholesun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_A%C3%A9ronautique_Internation ale

they are an irelevance to irish football, feck them and their bloody ballon speed records ...

bhs

[Burnsie]

another counter-productive PR gaffe by the FAI!

is this history's first instance of shooting oneself in the foot.ie?

[scoops85]

All they'd have to do is rattle blogspot.com's cage and it could get taken down. If you're going to do a blog like that, get it hosted properly.

It sounds interesting, but I suspect it would wind up being a bit ranty and not factual enough for my liking.

I wud love to see the FAI crushed by google :D

[pete]

He hopes the bona fides of website administrators will be taken into account but no one knows and he doesn't wish to be the one finding out in some scaldingly expensive action down in the Four Courts.

Every day he checks the discussion board for the latest threads and also receives the assistance of several contributors, also with legal backgrounds, who contact him as soon as they spot anything with potential legal ramifications.

The uniform for foot.ie Moderators.

[Jaime]

Am I the only one who thought that the whole idea of planning an Out protest for our showcase game at Croke Park, complete with Out t-shirts, and linking to the site selling the t-shirts, and making the thread a sticky, is thick in the extreme? Regardless of whether or not any organisation can bother the site legally, is (or was) the public organinisation of such a protest something that the forum should be hosting?

[Peadar]

Was talking to a hack earlier and he said, in no uncertain terms, that a certain organisation was planning a major clampdown. Hinted that consultants were monitoring all media outlets and that some were more vulnerable than others. i.e. Those with less financial clout. He has never told me anything which wasn't true before.

[pineapple stu]

Regardless of whether or not any organisation can bother the site legally, is (or was) the public organinisation of such a protest something that the forum should be hosting?
Yes, it is.

How better to do it?

And a protest is not illegal in any manner, shape or form.

[Billsthoughts]

how do we know the hamster wouldnt spend all the money on one of them big shiny fancy cd things to hang on his rear view mirror to ward of speed cameras????????

[MariborKev]

Obviously I'll chip in

I'll send all the Zimbabwean Dollars yeese want!!!!!

[CollegeTillIDie]

Thats a rather bigoted stance you have taken yourself Jerry! :DHe's right Magicme, if the GAA did their job right Monaghan would be competing for Hurling All -Ireland's :D
Obviously I'll chip in

I'll send all the Zimbabwean Dollars yeese want!!!!!I was going to send Romanian Lei myself :D

[John83]

Am I the only one who thought that the whole idea of planning an Out protest for our showcase game at Croke Park, complete with Out t-shirts, and linking to the site selling the t-shirts, and making the thread a sticky, is thick in the extreme? Regardless of whether or not any organisation can bother the site legally, is (or was) the public organinisation of such a protest something that the forum should be hosting?
Why shouldn't it?