Blogger claims Twitter-served court order a success

Damages?!

Given that this isn't America, I was under the impression that damages had to be connected to some form of ... damage. Apart from legal costs, which are something else entirely, how has there been a genuine loss?

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I've been around a while now and this is the sadest thing I've ever seen. I don't believe for one second that someone is going to pay a fine for 'impersonating' a 'monikor' on twitter. What is the world coming to.

Negative Damages?

I'm sure the vast publicity in this case has actually increased the traffic to barneys blamey (or whatever its called) I suspect that reasonable damages could feasibly be zero or less!

I for one had not heard of either of these tweeple and wish that had remaind the case.

Meheheh

Seeing what an easily-ridiculed tosser Blaney is, I do hope the impersonater is just toying with him and will continue to take the piss. If not, I'm sure there'll be plenty of other willing mickey-takers.

Did I mention that Blaney is a right-wing nutcase tosser?

@DavCrav

Waiting for the tweet of "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram"

Getting with the times at last :)

Nice 1 ! Well I'm all for it, nice to see some people getting with the times.

I have a twitter account...

but I rarely use it. Am I now obliged to check regularly for any thing @-ed me?

All my email goes through an imperfect junk-mail filter before I get to see it. Am I now obliged to switch it off? If I'm not obliged, couldn't I just say that the message was probably eaten by the filter before I got to see it?

Do I now have to keep checking this comment page in case anyone wants to serve me legal papers in the form of a comment?

4chan food

Looks like he's setting himself up to be 4channed. Break out the popcorn...

Barneysbarmy

Tosser indeed.

courts

have official twitter accounts now?

@judgedownwiththekids maybe?

The real news story is that the court accepted a message sent via Twitter (I refuse to call them Tweets), the sad part is the damages being sought. Another reason to not have one of those stupid things.