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Anonymous blogging: how far is too far?

By Kevin OKeefe

Anonymous blogging and commenting has been on the tip of everyone's tongue lately. Earlier this month in Kentucky, Republican representative Tim Couch made national headlines and caused outrage in certain circles of the tech blogosphere when he introduced House Bill 775, his radical plan to make any anonymous web posting illegal. If response on the web is any indication, Couch's bill seems destined to fail...and even if it didn't, the odds that such a law would stand up when challenged in court seem low. Less clear-cut is the issue currently facing Rick Frenkel, director of IP litigation at Cisco Systems and the man recently outed as author of the anonymous blog Patent Troll Tracker. A day after a bounty hunter seeking the $15,000 offered for Troll Tracker's identity by attorney Raymond Niro (of Niro Scavone Haller & Niro, a Chicago firm Frenkel has blogged about) revealed his name, both the blogger and his company were sued for defamation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).