Is there a day of reckoning coming for JBII and th

Is there a day of reckoning coming for JBII and the rabid bashers that constantly attack them? According to this article in the washington post there is.

Lawyers say such cases are a cautionary tale for a new era: Those who feel targeted by defamation on the Web are more likely to file suit, and judges and juries are more likely to take such claims seriously than in years past, raising the legal stakes over vitriolic reviews, nasty blog comments and Facebook feuds.

“There is a right to speak anony­mously on the Internet,” said Lee Berlik, a Reston lawyer who handles Internet defamation cases. “Armed with that right, I think people feel safe when they are sitting in their pajamas at their desks at home. They feel they have the right to say whatever they want .”

But that right does not extend to defamatory speech. Lawyers across the country are more aggressively using a combination of legal maneuvers and computer forensics to help uncover the identities of anonymous commentators and sue them.

And some of those cases are producing astronomical awards. This year, an Anaheim, Calif., technology company won a $1.6?million judgment against a blogger who had accused the company of stealing money from business associates. And in 2006, a Florida woman won a $11.3?million judgment after a Louisiana woman called her a “crook” and a “con artist” in an Internet forum.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/201...story.html

Freedom of speech doesnt mean you can say anything. You can't threaten to harm people for example. Soon lying about people in chat rooms may land you in court too. Canada is far ahead of the US on this subject as evidenced by the recent ruling against three perps that were libeling JBII. It looks like the US is following in their footsteps.