MCD vs Boards.ie (1 Viewer)

[Pilchard]

best oxegen ever, i reckon!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054975678

Boards, MCD and legal action.
As of Friday, 11th August 2006, MCD Productions have entered into legal proceedings against boards.ie Ltd.

At this time we cannot make, or allow, comment on an ongoing legal action against Boards.ie. Please understand and accept that we cannot enter into public debate or discussion about it.

Please dont start new threads about the topic or they will be closed and deleted. We will keep you as informed as our lawyers instruct us is safe to do. Trust us, we've never let you down to date and you know us long enough to know we wont start now. I wish I could say more (you know I do!) but I cant.

 

[Doctor Muscles]

Please dont start new threads about the topic

Let's go over to boards and start some new threads about the topic.

 

[RSJ]

Absolutely amazing. It's as if MCD are trying to kill themselves off.

 

[nofriendo]

Let's go over to boards and start some new threads about the topic.

my thoughts exactly, pete watch yourself!!!

 

[krossie]

It's as if MCD are trying to kill themselves off.

Chance would be a fine thing!

Krossie

 

[pete]

Let's go over to boards and start some new threads about the topic.

that would be an incredibly stupid thing to do.

all joking aside, things have just gotten very serious. this is way bigger than boards.ie

 

[avernus]

oh I can't wait to get banned again from boards.ie

I hope they all die in some unprecedented explosion of wigs and fire.

 

[RSJ]

that would be an incredibly stupid thing to do.

all joking aside, things have just gotten very serious. this is way bigger than boards.ie

Very true. Any action taken against boards can be taken against thumped, and considering some of the things said here, it could be much much worse.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

sunday times wrote about this yesterday in the main section

also a piece on mcd trying to buy more venues in u.k. in the business section of the same paper

 

[avernus]

can someone explain why mcd are suing boards?

 

[RSJ]

Because people posted on boards about their experiences at Oxygen this year, which MCD see as slander/libel/defamation of brand, whatever, so they're suing them.

 

[La La]

that's what you get when you have mods whose signatures read "have drill; will mod."

how gay.

 

[avernus]

Because people posted on boards about their experiences at Oxygen this year, which MCD see as slander/libel/defamation of brand, whatever, so they're suing them.

surely their defence is that these were their personal experiences and are proveable - burning tents with live humans inside etc.

pretty ubsurd to sue for that. boycott anyone?

 

[La La]

MCD are a bunch of pricks. how can you sue for libel when people were merely discussing the shit that actually in real-life went down?

'sake.

 

[avernus]

MCD are a bunch of pricks. how can you sue for libel when people were merely discussing the shit that actually in real-life went down?

'sake.

BRING ON THE SUIT!

 

[La La]

(i'm actually consulting my 'Essential Law for Journalists' book right now. will get back to you on this.)

 

[Vinnie]

They are suing because the comments included remarks about the standard and number of security. It was alleged that there were neither sufficient numbers of guards and that they were either corrupt and/or incompetent. MCD believe that these allegation constitute slander. From a business point of view the law suits make sense. From an ethical point of view they are nothing short of embarassing.

 

[avernus]

apparently it's also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purpose of gambling.

 

[La La]

found a funny story in this book about two dublin laywers who sued the sunday world becuse it wrote a story about them fighting over a chocolate eclair. the lawyers won.


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make a point la la, make a point.

yes my point.

these days people can sue for almost anything. as long a something appears in the public domain in print, whether it be on paper or on the internerd, if it sways the "right thinking public" into believeing certain things, you can slap a defamatory suit on it and [in some cases] laugh all the way to the bank.

the law is so nerdy.

 

[avernus]

found a funny story in this book about two dublin laywers who sued the sunday world becuse it wrote a story about them fighting over a chocolate eclair. the lawyers won.


??????//

make a point la la, make a point.

yes my point.

these days people can sue for almost anything. as long a something appears in the public domain in print, whether it be on paper or on the internerd, if it sways the "right thinking public" into believeing certain things, you can slap a defamatory suit on it and [in some cases] laugh all the way to the bank.

the law is so nerdy.

seems MCD are pretty sensitive. they might well sue you for calling them a bunch of pricks. can't really sue me for hoping they all die, but if they do all die I may be in a spot of trouble.