Cyber Law

Web Developer failed to work on project

corneliusw — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:51:21 GMT

I signed a contact with a web developer (based in New York) on 9/21/2009 to build a website for me. The cost for the total project was $6000, and we signed a contract for the developer to be paid 50% upfront ($3000). The last half of the fee would be paid when the project is finished. In the contract it reads, "the web design company will take all reasonable actions to complete project by December 20, 2009. " I have not seen any work from the project and I have not heard from the web developer since January 18, 2010 in which he stated, “I will be back from South America at the end of the month and will provide you with a realistic timeline that will enable us to get this site up and running.” I have sent several e-mails since that e-mail, called their phone number minimum 20 times, and left several voicemails and still have not heard from the developer.

I finally received a response on 7/23/2010 after I contacted two of the web developers friends to make them aware of the situation I am in. I then immediately heard from back the web developer e-mail within 2 hours of sending a e-mail. However the web developer did not respond to me, it was his wife. All she did was apologize on behalf of her husband and continue to feed me excuses that her husband has "undergone a very traumatic experience with the loss of several of his family members."

I warned her that I need to hear back from her husband before August 25 or else I would have to pursue legal actions, and she followed that by he will be back in the country before then and will get in contact with me.

This all SCREAMS scam to me. And I had a strange feeling in the back of my head PRIOR to sending him the money that it was a scam but I was so caught up in wanting to get this project done by a professional that I ignored my thoughts.

First I directly deposited the $3000 to their bank account, and yes I still have the receipt. That was a major NO NO, and I knew that at the time but since he appeared to be legit and has created some good projects I thought nothing of it. You should never directly deposit money into ANYONE account and I knew that. We were in contact for 2 months after depositing money, he spoke to me nearly everyday on MSN. However we never talked about the project and if I ever asked about it he would say there's nothing to show at the moment because he is working on the coding. But he would contact me everyday to have a regular chit chat.

The MAJOR issue I have is that we signed a contract but I no longer have the signed version of the contract! He sent me his signed version of the contract via MSN, however my computer lost all data on it while doing a upgrade to Windows 7. So now all I have is the contract and agreement with no signatures. I also no longer have the MSN conversations. All I have is the contract with no signatures, e-mail communication, and receipt of bank deposit.

I would like to have the money refunded to me. What are my options since I don't have the signed version of the contract anymore?

Bad Faith

Artist55 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:17:06 GMT

We asked the defendants in a Civil matter to provide us with CDs of digital images during discovery well over 5 months ago. We have provided them with all our digital data as they have requested on time.

Two weeks before trial they have provided us with black and white photo copies of the actual CDs we have requested printed on copy paper along with over 180 pages of poorly printed digital images and properties folders that have been digitally cut and paste to each page of paper.

We have no way of knowing if the paper exhibits they have provided are authentic since they apparently will not provide us with the CDs as we requested, and now the trial is only days away.

The defendants spent a great deal of time creating the 180 pages of cut and paste digital data on copy paper, when they could have produced the CDs in a matter of minutes back during the discovery process.

I find their latest actions very insulting after we have conducted ourselves in a professional manner at all times during this legal process. And the digital data we requested from the defendants is critical to our case.

Can you tell me, what are possible legal remedies for such a Bad Faith effort on the part of the defendants?

Thanks.

What can I do?

inso — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:45:19 GMT

How it started:

I met a woman on a website. The website is like a forum but a little different. We talked briefly and I broke it off. She got married. A month after her marriage I had an email exchange with her in which she suggested that I visit her city. She made veiled references(she is a lawyer) to getting back together. I told her no.

Cyberstalking and Harassment:

When I came back to the website after a month or so a lot of new fake profiles started to stalk me. As soon as I would log in they would post a journal and try to seduce me. There were senior members of the website that were also making journals helping those fake profiles. They would post romantic journals. I was confused, why would so many people be trying to get me to be romantically involved with a married woman. I was unsure if it was her so I sent her an email saying hi. She never replied. But a fake profile made a comment about someone contacting her. That's when I realized that she was trying to "clean" her earlier emails by getting me to contact her.

Going Official:

I contacted the website about the stalking and harassment. The admin I talked to on the phone laughed at me for complaining about harassment. Instead of doing something about it she sent me an email in which she tried to flirt with me. I didn't reply. Then a fake profile posted a journal on the topic of stalking and harassment. I realized that it was the admin, indirectly revealing to everyone else that I had contacted her regarding stalking and harassment. I was stunned at the breach of privacy.

It gets worse:

What followed was group bullying and stalking to cover this thing up. Veild threats of revealing personal information. Ridicule, taunting and yelling that leaves a person withdrawn and sensitive. Even though I never saw it but the woman had created a facebook page where she was planning and coordinating all this. The obvious question is why did I not leave right away and allowed myself to become the village idiot. Because I kept getting surprised by the involvement of the website employees. They were giving them my IP, my location, anytime I would login and other information about me. I contacted the owner to complain about the employees' involvement but he never replied. He was fully aware of what was going on since he was friends with the woman.

Website "Terms and Condtiions" and "Privacy Policy"

Jimmy Talbert — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:25:35 GMT

I am launching a new website in October and not sure how to handle the "Terms and Conditions" and "Privacy Policy". I have reviewed my top three competitors and they are very detailed. Can I use a combination of theirs to form my own or should I have an attorney draw them up. How much would an attorney charge to write the "Terms and Condtiions" and "Privacy Policy"?

Thanks,

Jimmy

HELP ME AM I GOING TO JAIL!??

windowpain1 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:35:03 GMT

Is this lady going to make me go to jail?

http://i33.tinypic.com/2yuc1f8.jpg

What laws relate to this?

Disclaimer on Website

Ty McLemore — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:32:17 GMT

Greetings.

In a few weeks I will be operating a website where I give employees advice on how to survive and thrive at work while working with various types of people.

I am guessing that i will need to put some type of disclaimer on the site letting them know that even though I am college educated, I am NOT a licensed professional and this is strictly advice to them that I have learned throughout my own life.

My question is what type of disclaimer can I put on here to protect myself down the road from getting sued? I've read many self-help books that never seem to have a disclaimer in them. Are books different in that they don't carry the same liability as websites?

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much.

"If Its On The Internet Its Free"

LegalSecy — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:38:02 GMT

I got into somewhat of a dispute with a coworker in a department meeting today. Our boss refused to "take sides." I'm pretty sure I'm right, but just asking for confirmation (or tell me if I'm wrong!).

My co-worker "found" some software on a download site on the internet. He downloaded it. (Nevermind what our I.T. department thinks of such things.) It was locked and he apparently tried to call the company that sells it (or sells the key to unlock it) and all he got was an answering machine.

So he reverse engineered it and started showing off all the great "info" he got from doing this and how we could use it to [our department's] benefit.

At that point I said, "You can't do that. That software is somebody's Intellectual Property and what you are doing is stealing it."

We got into an extended discussion of what he was doing and exactly how he was doing it and why he was sure that wasn't theft of any kind because after all, "it WAS on the Internet."

I was appalled. Our boss finally allowed that if it was "something we were likely to get caught doing" we probably shouldn't do it.

I was even more appalled and said that it isn't a matter or whether we'd get caught or not, theft is theft, and what this co-worker is doing IS theft.

Everybody was mad at me for "ruining the meeting" and "being mean" to a "nice" co-worker who was "just trying to help."

I still think Intellectual Property is Intellectual Property and Theft is Theft. The mere fact that my co-worker couldn't reach the owner of the IP on the first attempt to place a phone call, doesn't doesnt make it any less Theft.

Am I right on this, or do I have to go in tomorrow and Eat Crow?

Personal Information Stolen

SWP62 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:41:21 GMT

I have become aware that some personal working documents, papers, check stubs, and travel documentation have been stolen from me to be used in the divorce proceedings of another individual. I am looking for the applicable laws. This is a private individual.

Privacy Act request to FBI, CIA, Homeland Security

oneandonlydavid — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:23:08 GMT

My story:

After i got into a fight with my parents i emailed my father and told him i was going to pay for my own cell phone bill.

A week later on march 16th 2010 i read an article online that said president obama cancels family trip to indonesia and australia. He was going solo with his staff while his family stayed home.

On march 17th 2010 i sent an email to whitehouse.gov through their electronic form. The email said "dear obama, please spend more time with your kids. When i was a kid my father wasn't around that much and if you put make your family a priority everything will fall into place."

On march 18th President obama cancelled his trip. An australian news source said the prime minister was happy to hear the president would be returning later in the summer with his family.

Around a week later ICU Wireless opened up business around the corner from my house. The company sold no contract cell phones and car stereos. I found it strange that they sold car stereos as well. It was also strange see thing the kenwood model i had been wanting for several months, that i saved a picture of while shopping at Best Buy. you can visit their website www.icu-wireless.com

In the past my company Bite The World Productions, LLC produced 2 online videos for the cabell county executive committe. I was paid $100 for each one and then uploaded them to youtube.com/cabellgop.

My theory is just maybe my email upset the President and he decided to send the cia to collect intelligence on me for politcal gains in upcoming elections. I am basing this theory on emails sent to news organizations, unreturned phone calls to cyber lawyers at harvard law, intercepted text messages to and from my friends cell phones. Friends who wanted me to travel to san diego, 2 days later i would recieve their messages. I notice a large amount of traffic cameras that were installed across the city of Huntington, WV as well.

I did a little research on the FOIA and sent out several requests. The Department of Defense security service cited excemptios 6 and 7c. The office of the National Reconssanice office also cited excemptions explaining that they had no unclassified documents. My request to the air force was never processed because it was too broad. I have never worked for the air force but i did notice that after i emailed the president the air force opened up a cyber command department. My request to the NSA cited an executive order from the president and no documents were retrieved. I mailed and faxed out a request to the CIA and never got a response. This was 3 weeks ago.

Ive contacted my local ACLU affillate but bc i did not research filling out the required forms it was rejected. I mentioned patriot act and a possible scandal but my affilliate is small and only handles a few cases a year.

I am unsure if my email to whitehouse.gov was connected to an email i sent out to my senator jay rockefeller. he is on the senate committe of intelligence. that email read, "you will not get reelected if net neutrality goes through."

I am looking for a lawyer to assist me in filing "perfected" pa requests to reach a definitive conlcusion if the govt has any documents indexed to my name. If my theory is correct those documents would lead me to file a complaint in federal court and open up a criminal case.

I am looking for any advice on filing perfected requests. Additionally i am willing to pay a retainer up to $10,000 to any lawyer with a background in cyber law and FOIA.

paypal

necolewen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:10:46 GMT

My husband sold an item on Ebay. The buyer paid for it through Paypal. My husband shipped it out with insurance. The buyer claimed it arrived broken so my husband told him he must file a claim with USPS.

The buyer asked him to file the claim. My husband looked into it and told him that since he had the broken statue he had to file the claim.

Next the buyer claimed that it was misrepresented in the auction and that what he received was not what it was stated to be. He wanted his money back. My husband told him he could refund his money but he had to return the statue.

So the buyer filed a claim with Ebay/Paypal. Paypal contacted us and we explained our position. They told us we had to refund the money. My husband refused on principle.

Paypal refunded the buyer his money and then demanded that we reimburse them. My husband refused on principle.

Now, several years later we have begun receiving collection notices in the mail. We moved three years ago and somehow they found our new phone and address.

Any advice would be appreciated, we've been ignoring the collection notices.

Pornography website

Frankh — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:21:39 GMT

I am not sure if I am asking this in the right section..i just came across this website and I thought it could help me. I have a daughter who by the mistakes of life has made a huge mistake. When she was 18 she worked for a pornography website and we just found all these things out. My family is breaking apart, even though she did this when she was young, these videos are still circulating the net and might hurt her future. I am in pain but I need a way to take her pictures and videos off the internet. Is there a way to do this legally. This is in Miami, Florida. I am in terrible pain. THis is a serious concern and I need to know what can be done due to that she did signed the concent forms that were needed back then. Any help please please please will be appreciated. Can a lawyer help me with this task or there is no hope for our family?

lots of question

confused and wondering — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:25:23 GMT

I have a lot of questions, all related to one particular website blog (comments on local news), and most relating to a specific person and some of her friends. She has been consistently nasty--and when one of her friends tried finding my identity (not realizing that I have a sister-in law with the same first name, middle initial and last name in the same state) has posted 'my" "criminal record" for passing bad checks (all currently cleared btw) and has constantly referred back to it. I filed a fraud alert on my credit report due to her and her friends--causing me a few problems with a recently issued credit card which I am in the process of taking care of. I would really like a lawyer with Internet experience to look over the site and any relevant postings if possible, and possibly work probono or on a contingency basis if I have a case against her and other posters on the blog,and/or the website/it's owner. I really want to be careful in this issue as she claims her husband is in the military. (I stumbled across a reference to him being an employee at a local defense contractor though--and I forgot to write down the name of the company.) I do not want him punished either directly or indirectly unless he had something to do with the harassment, libel and slander that I feel I have been subjected to on the site. Others on my side of the issue have also been harrassed by this group of individuals. I don't even know what kind of lawyer I would need should this happen to be a viable case. I have tried using the website's feedback system and so far I have not received an answer or seen any visible resolution in this matter. Ignoring her and her buddies is NOT an option---she and her "friends" harangue everyone. What do I do? I found her address and phone number in the phone book (as well as the name of her husband) should it ever be needed. Please help immediately as I am at the end of my rope--and I feel others on the site may soon be at the end of theirs in regards to this "lady" (and I use the term extremely loosely.) Even if it's just a lawyer posting a comment on the blog stating that she may actually be violating the law--and that she is reflecting badly on her husband and may cause him to lose any security clearances he has--may be a step in the right direction. Thank you.

Can affiliate provider terminate contract?

onlinemarketer — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:30:48 GMT

Hi,

With my brother I run some websites that sell travel, and we advertise the websites on the search engines. The travel services we sell are provided by a very large online company ("company") through an affiliate program. (e.g. think of the relationship between Amazon, and website owners who sell Amazon products through their website).

In the beginning, we used the company's white-label platform to display the products we sold. i.e. we did not need to do huge amounts of programming to have a website up and running. However 1 year ago they required that we develop my own multi-language platform that would integrate their products using an XML feed. We were given a 4-month deadline to complete this.

This was a large investment in terms of money, but also in time. ( although we launched within 3 months, we are still fixing bugs and making optimizations 15 months later. I have been working at this full time for the last 15 months, but have also employed programmers, designers, etc..). Whilst this was a lot of work, we now have our own in-house website which is set up to sell specifically the provider company's products.

Last week, my contact at the provider company sent us an email saying that they have changed their policy and they no longer allow affiliates, old and new, to use Search Engine Marketing (i.e. advertising on search engines, like we do), to drive traffic and sales to their product. This policy would bring our entire business to a halt, as we rely exclusively on Search Engine Marketing to bring visitors to our website to then sell them the travel product from this supplier.

I have checked our affiliate contract and although in it, Search Engine Marketing is allowed, it does say that the parties may terminate the contract at any time for any reason.

Is this legal? One year ago the company required us to make huge investments in time and money to develop our own platform (but this platform only works for their product!!), and now they want to disallow us advertising our websites? Would they be allowed to just terminate our contract like this, or would it go against the principles of fair competition?

To me, it seems that the company has made a strategic decision that they do not want their own affiliates to compete with them in Search Engine Marketing. There is no other reason that makes business sense for which they would not allow us to advertise our website.

I have been given 1 month to comply. Can they really terminate our business like this, and what can we do?

Even if we could find an alternate supplier (which I don't think would be as good as they are the leaders in the sector), it would take at last 18months to develop a suitable platform and gather enough research to launch a suitable replacement website!

Thanks for your help!

Mike

Online Scam Website Company: Subpoena/Sue/Trace

IH8Scammers — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:45:38 GMT

I am not from Virginia but I paid an online company (ReputationArmor.com) down in Virginia, USA to do some services for me. Our contract said anywhere from 3-6 weeks the work would be complete. It has been 5 months the work is still not complete. After doing some research I found a complaints web site with about 20+ other people having similar stories to mine...

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/reputation-armor-c246794.html
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/reputation-armor-c249122.html

Their fax number obviously works because that's how they wanted to be paid check-by-fax (that was a red flag right there). Most of the time, around 80% the "sales" guy David would answer the phone and was very good at answering all my questions and seemed very convincible and trustworthy at the same of sale. Now that I have called him out on tons of red flags it appears he does not answer my calls anymore. Here are the red flags...

1. David will always gives me the run around. Saying things like it takes longer than expected.
2. Their 888-358-2766 does work, but extension 701 always is voicemail. All the other extensions no body answers either.
3. Extension 703: David answers then says to try the other extensions when those ppl don't exist.
4. He told me he was just the sales guy and when I asked him to go hand the phone to the manager or the tech that was working on my case he would just make something up on the fly making it look like they were busy or not around.
5. Their WHOIS on their web site is Moniker Privacy Services 20 SW 27th Ave. Suite 201 Pompano Beach, FL 33069 US Phone: +1.9549848445

I google mapped their address (1329 W. Main St. #230 Salem, VA 24153) and it shows a K-Mart in that location. I called a local UPS Store that had the same address and one of the workers told me it was their address and that was the mailbox number.

I'm not sure how to subpoena the UPS Store for this mailbox's information and would need some help on how to go about doing this. Even if I subpoena the ups store for this information I do not know if it's going to be fake info. So I was wondering how I could go about tracing the fax number they are using as well. I would like to sue this guy/company as well for all the damages it will cost me as well.

So if anybody out there can point me in the right direction that would be very helpful or a lawyer that would take my case.

Does my husband have a case?

RHV1 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:00:39 GMT

Last year in April my husband was fired from his place of employement after 5 years for supposedly surfing porn on the internet during work hours. They claimed that the IT guy (located in a different state) noticed the whole network was lagging down and he traced it to my husbands company computer IP address. They took my husband in the office and told him what they claimed to have found he asked them to look at his computer and see if they could find anything at all on it proving what the IT guy said and they refused and then fired him.

My husband filed an unemployment claim anyway and we thought it would be an win for several reasons. The IT provided internet logs along with a written testimony saying that he observed the internet activity on a specific date. The internet logs themselves contained no dates only time stamps,links and a IP address. One of the days listed by the IT guy my husband wasnt even in the office he was at the job site where he had no access to a computer. Another of the days he was home for at least half the day and the time stamps on that log showed access to the porn links from his company computer after he was already home.Also none of the company computers have a personal log on, they all use the same ID and password.

My husband defended himself because we thought there was no way a judge would take the internet logs as proof without them at least being dated and with my husband being able to prove he wasnt even in the office at least part of the time the logs were dated for but we were wrong The judge never even asked my husbands employer about the days he wasnt in the office and my husband lost his unemployment appeal.

My husband is working again now but the whole thing still bothers us, we nearly lost everything we had and we had to move away from our home just to survive those months before my husband found another job. I want to know if there is a case and if there is would it be worth the time and money to pursue it, its not about the money anymore its the fact that a company did that to my husband and he didnt do anything wrong and it nearly destroyed my families financial future and not only caused us to have to move away from our home but it took several months for my husband to find another job and has caused him problems because its hard to explain to a potential employer that you were fired from you last job because you were falsly accused of surfing porn during work hours.

It should be noted to that the company also fired at least 7 other people during this time, all of them for varying reasons and layed off at least 2 others. I cant help but think this was a setup, they couldnt find anything else to fire him for so they made one up and they didnt want to lay him off because his contract called for a hefty serverence package in the case of a lay off.

Ownership of email address

Erik1979 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:36:48 GMT

I was recently terminated from my job, now the owner wants my email address that I recieved all my emails on. I set up the gmail account all on my own and registered it with my personal email address. The account does have the company name in it. What recourse does he have in me having to give him the password to this account. He has threatened me with turning it over to the sheriff's office, and this is the last thing I would want to go through. It was a start up company and I have no signed contracts with him in ownership of anything. I brought personal contacts to the company that he refuses to return. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Erik

How to find out who ows YorkieTalk.com

RNR — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:27:29 GMT

How do I go about finding out who owns YorkieTalk.com? They have a

thread on their site that affects me and I wish to file suit against the owner of the site who I have asked to remove the thread and choose to

post my request and laugh about it on the site. I'd also like to file suit against the poster as well.

I have confirmation from a client that they withdrew from a purchase based on the false information on this site.

Texas cyberstalking/cyber harrassment?

tired_of_ harrassment — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:13:50 GMT

I live in Texas and an ex "friend" has a blog site that is promoted across the Internet within the community for our hobby.

He has many posts about me, my business practices, me personally, derrogatory comments about my fiance, her personal past, her weight, etc.

While most is relatively true, he has made statements that he wants to see me out of business, and won't stop until I'm dead. (albeit he wasn't threatening me with death, just commenting on when he would stop when someone asked)

He has concocted clever pseudonyms for me and my finace, although it is terribly obvious from them whom he is referring to.

My question is simply do I have a legal case here?

I realize it's hard without the specific text. However, I have no desire to send more traffic his way.

If an attorney wishs to contact me directly I would be happy to discuss more details.

Thanks in advance

Libel and Defamation on the Internet

JayyP — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:48:41 GMT

I really don't know where to turn with this, and am looking for some guidance...

I was a member of an internet web site that has a forum to discuss current events with other members. The moderator (who is also the owner of the site) routinely posts his opinions along with the other members. The moderator/owner obviously strongly disagreed with my opinion on a subject, and became extremely hostile toward me in his posts. He then used information that was required at the time I signed-up for the site and not public or viewable by other members (e-mail address, name, etc.) and used it to do a search on the net for other posts I have made on other sites. He then re-posted those posts on his site, along with my name, e-mail address (he even found a photograph of me and posted that) to try to prove his point of view. He has called me a "liar" on his site and much worse. His posts are laced with profanity. When I tried to respond to his rants concerning me on his site, I found that he had stopped my ability to do so via my IP address; I no longer have access to the site. However, his rants on the site continue to this day. What recourse do I have?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Auction Sites, Suing for Payment

Waz — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:23:08 GMT

I have what I think is an interesting question and one that probably many people have wondered.

I am a member of an online auction site with its location in the State of Georgia. I reside in Maryland, and the buyer resides in New Jersey.

The Members Agreement which both of us (me as the seller and Peter as the buyer) agreed to states the following:

"1. Bidding. Placing a bid on an item is an irrevocable offer to buy the item(s) at the price in the bid, provided the bid is a winning bid at the time of the close of the auction. A winning bid is a bid that is the highest bid on an item, or in the event of a tie, the bid placed chronologically earliest. In the case of a reserve price auction a bid is only a winning bid if it meets or exceeds the reserve price on the item. In the case of a Dutch auction there may be more than one winning bid depending on the quantity of items available and the number of bids placed.

Placing a bid constitutes entering into a binding legal agreement with the seller to purchase the item(s) at the winning bid price and in accordance with the terms stated in the item listing and the rules of this site. You must resolve any questions about the item by contacting the seller of the item prior to placing a bid. Do not place a bid until you are sure that you understand what you are bidding on and, if necessary, have received a response from the seller of the item regarding any questions you may have.

Once a bid is placed it may not be cancelled or retracted without the permission of the seller. The seller is not obligated to grant permission to retract or cancel a bid, and it is not the duty of this auction site to request permission from the seller for a bid retraction or cancellation. Any bid cancellation must be worked out between buyer and seller without assistance from the auction site.

Bidding is subject to bid increments and items may be subject to a minimum bid.

By bidding on an item, you authorize us to release your contact information, including name, address, email, and telephone number, to the seller who listed the item.

Auctions will not be extended due to technical difficulties. Do not wait until the last minute to bid!"

In this particular case, the buyer aggressively placed three (3) bids to become the high bidder before sending an email to me asking questions about the item. He later developed buyer's remorse and did not want the item.

Given the Member's Agreement is very clear on his obligations, and the fact we are in two different states, if I decide to pursue this in Small Claims Court, which state would I file my claim?

What protections do I have as a seller to receive payment for my item (I have not shipped the item until I receive payment).

I am aware that I could simply re-list the item for sale again, but there is no gaurantee that it will sell for that price and I made a significant investment in this item to resell it.

Please share your insight on this particular case.

Thank you!

Identity permanently ruined.

cb201 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:58:56 GMT

In January a relative of mine had their identity stolen and used on a pro-pedophile internet forum. Perverted Justice used this forum and the posts the person made to make a profile about my relative on their website. The emotional distress and identity damage is considerable.

The relative was advised to get a Cease and Desist ORDER, as sending a C&D letter would just be thrown in the trash. The person tried to contact PJ but was ignored on all fronts.

Here's the issue. Hiring a Lawyer to put together the order is way, way, out of the relatives financial capability. He's tried Legal Aid, ACLU, and called every local Lawyer and pretty much begged for pro bono help. None was found.

Is my relative's identity ruined forever? Are there ANY lawyers out there that do pro bono internet defamation/libel cases? Are there any other ways to get a C&D order, not a C&D letter?

Thanks so much.

Getting fired for a Facebook Post

TGulish — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:07:44 GMT

Is it allowed for an employeer to fire you for posting on Facebook? I was told that it violated a code of conduct. But I am at home on a medium that everyone can post what ever it is that they like to it. I was told about a situation at work and I posted on Facebook that maybe my company is not worth working for anymore if the General Manager doesn't trust us maybe I should start looking for another job, And in another post that people need to be smacked for being bitches when it gets hot outside.

Never I have heard in the company of such a rule. And if I am not in uniform or speaking while on the property of said company. How are they able to do such a thing?

Can this realistically get me in trouble?

Heya1234321 — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:21:30 GMT

I posted someone's phone number on craigslist under "strictly platonic" I think the message said "want to be friends, maybe more.."

There was no name nor street address, just a phone number. All help is greatly appreciated.

Domain Names of Large Coporations

naro123 — Sat, 22 May 2010 20:31:01 GMT

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I am trying to build a series of 7 websites:

Avery5160Labels.com (Avery 5160 is an avery label)

Avery5660.com (Avery 5660 is an avery label)

Avery8293.info (Avery 8293 is an avery label)

AveryFileFolderLabels.com (you get the point…)

Averylaserlabels.com

AveryShippingLabels.com

AveryWhiteLabels.com

The site will be microsites that sell avery products and compatible options at a significant discount and I do not plan on trying to sell these to avery at a significant markup. I have conducted a quick trademark search and none of these are trademarks of avery but half of them are the names of products they sell while the other half are categories that they sell in.

Are you allowed to register a domain name that is a company’s product name and sell their products? If yes, even at a significant discount and with compatible offerings?

Are you allowed to register a domain name that represents a certain category of a company’s product offering and sell them?

Is this legal? What problems could I be facing that I need to look into?

Is it lible or defamation if it is true and provable?

spiritcreek — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:55:08 GMT

I went into business with someone in another state. After spending thousands of dollars and 18 hours/7 days a week working with her, giving her my business ideas and writing training programs for her, she terminated my contract without cause. Because I was now broke, I couldn't go to her state and file a lawsuit and she knew it. Now, one year later, I have rebuilt my business and have a buyer beware notice on my site that talks in general about making sure consumers know who they are dealing with and I used general terms to describe what this woman does, which is pretend she is a real doctor when she isn't, sell overpriced products that are simply private labled items anyone can get for less and that there are other products available that are better, cheaper and more effective. I don't mention her name, but I do make reference to her system in general terms.

Her attorney has sent me a letter telling me I am defaming her and orders me to cease and desist. I have over 1700 emails, videos and recordings that prove I am telling the truth. Am I required by law to change my wording to suit her need to control my actions, now, even a year later? The only one who would know what I am talking about is guilty party (her), any consumer would simply think I am warning them to do their research before they decide what to do. At no time do I ever say don't use her program or her products. Last question, wouldn't she have to sue me in my state anyway? She owes me over $100k for my time, my work product and my ideas that she stole from me and I have never been able to collect because I can't go to her state to sue her. Speaking truth is all I have. Must I give that up too?