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UK High Court Allows Injunction To Be Delivered Via Twitter
from the you've-been-tweetserved? dept
Last year, we wrote about how a judge in Australia allowed someone to "serve" documents in a legal dispute via Facebook, after other methods proved unworkable. Now, over in the UK, the High Court has allowed an injunction against a Twitter user to be delivered via Twitter itself. It's the typical story. Someone set up a fake Twitter account, and the real person wants it shut down. Of course, Twitter has a process for handling such things, and you'd think they'd just do that -- but apparently the guy was upset that it was a "potentially lengthy process." Yes, how dare Twitter actually make sure it wasn't violating its own users' rights first. Of course, given that the Twitter user is anonymous, it makes you wonder if he or she will even care (or notice).
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I believe the point....
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Hang on....
And Blaney thinks this will matter... why exactly? The UK courts cannot force Twitter to do _anything_ and how are they going to punish someone they can't ID?
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He is arguing breach of copyright. In 140 characters? What the hell did he copyright, his name? At most this is a trademark infringement, and you don't need an injunction to cure that (instead, you just keep racking up damages).
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