Re: Hunting for Mr Badmouth

[Ryan B Lynch <rlynch () strozllc com>]

Meritt James wrote:

> that is the way you are going I echo the recommendation to bring in a
> lawyer (ack!  cough!) NOW!  Perhaps, if you are really, really ticked
> contact the FBI through Infraguard contacts.
Get a lawyer and a subpoena.  With a lot of digging, if you have great 
research skills and get lucky, you might find something without having 
to ask Yahoo for the user's data.  Chances are, though, you'll waste 
your time.  Don't, DON'T call the FBI over this.  This is not a criminal 
matter--it's a civil matter if it's anything, and it might not even rise 
that high  The FBI will they have plenty enough to do investigating real 
crimes, and they'll politely tell you that it's not their problem.

If you're unwilling to file a lawsuit because of the expense of a 
lawyer, that's one thing.  But if you're unwilling to file because the 
offending content doesn't meet a libel standard (or have some other 
pretext to get it into court), I suggest that you consider another 
poster's comment:  getting the information will be difficult or 
impossible because it's supposed to be that way.  Privacy policies exist 
partially to protect people from this exact scenario.


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