Posted AT 1:56 AM EDT on 13/11/04
Scientist awarded cyberlibel damages
An Ontario judge has awarded an archeologist $125,000 in damages after a native man used e-mails to smear her as a “grave robber.”
The archeologist's lawyer is calling the ruling a precedent-setting one in the emerging field of Internet libel, a notion that may eventually have a chilling effect on the freewheeling ways computer users send messages.
“People seem to think there is a level of anonymity to e-mail and the Internet.
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