No, I’m not talking about comment spam or broken Blogger permalinks.
Justene at Calblog has been served with a legal petition (from Quebec, of all places) demanding she reveal information on a comments arising from this post on Infotel Publications. The motion demands the name, address, zip code, and telephone number for a commenter on the blog, information Justene claims she doesn’t have.
I’m not technically savvy enough to know if there is a way for a blogger to track down this personal information using an e-mail and IP address. And frankly, there have been a few comments on this site which make me not want to find out.
At any rate, the legal system is still attempting to come to terms with the Internet, and the blogosphere must keep a close eye on it.
The commenters that they are interested in mostly use a fake email address and some use false IP addresses. Maybe all. I don’t check. The one they are concerned about uses an email that is real. Why not seek the info from the email domain? I think that I would have to sue the email provider to get the info. Sounds dumb. They sue me to force me to sue someone? Nah.