You misunderstood the internet issue. It's IP's and web hosts that are exempted. So the IP or web site cannot be sued for anonymous claims by third parties, the way a newspaper can be held for almost everything that appears in their pages, including third parties.and......
this has already has gone through the courts when it comes to the internet. No case; end of story.
Tell me your real name and I'll make a web site calling you a child molester. You can try and sue me and then my point will be proven. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 generally immunizes from liability parties that create forums on the Internet in which defamation occurs from liability for statements published by third parties. This has the effect of precluding all liability for statements made by anonymous persons on the Internet whose identity cannot be determined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law
Nope. Read the section in bold.I was probably comparing apples to oranges, which I shouldn't of done.
However, when it comes to the comments about Ant from SS. It needs to be more than just words on a forum regardless of the identity being public. Ant would have to prove that his comment caused him to suffer a significant loss of business.
Defamation
Slander Per Se
Once again, all you would have to prove is that someone had published the statement to a third party. No proof of special damages is required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_and_libel
In the common law tradition, damages for such statements are presumed and do not have to be proven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...defamation_law
He's probably rigged up some sort of active noise control which in all reality is not out of par...it's pretty simple but you'd have to spend some money on a controller and writing a program and do a lot of testing with error sensors and what not (I'm working on stuff like this currently for generators..)
I know **** good and well the material works as far as an acoustical panel resonance dampener...