How-to guide for harassing websites

And it’s disguised as a perfectly respectable legal article in the New Jersey Law Journal; the sections on “self-help” tactics and on denouncing adversaries to state consumer agencies and the FTC are worthy of particular attention, although remarkable bits of hardball advice are in general sprinkled throughout.

Filed under: libel slander and defamation, online speech

By Walter Olson
February 26, 2009
4 Comments

4 Comments

[C]ourts would rather enforce remedies, but to avoid unfair results, they are becoming more amenable to self-help remedies. As a result, those who exercise self-help remedies and end up in litigation are more likely to find favorable court treatment…

A third [self-help remedy] is to use spoofing technology to send bogus e-mail on the unlawful speaker’s behalf. A fourth is to use viral software to disable some or all of an unlawful speaker’s Internet site or the site of an Internet service provider or mailer supporting the distribution the unlawful speech.

This will get favorable court treatment?
- February 26, 2009 12:34 PM
- By Patrick
I may be slow because of the cold medication. But didn’t that guy just suggest committing a federal crime as a self-help method?
- February 26, 2009 2:22 PM
- By Ken
actually he did (at least i michigan its a felony to send a virus)
- February 26, 2009 2:35 PM
- By matt
how could anyone tell you to break the law and call it self help

hmmm i need money so is robbery now self help??!!!
- February 26, 2009 2:38 PM
- By matt