I've decided since I'm spending so much money on lawyers every year, that I might as well post up the things we get.
I just checked our beyond emails, and got this today.
From: Justin Klee
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: The Gallery of fine cars/legal action against beyond.ca
To whom this may concern,
Over the past 2 or so years we have received some very negitive publicity from your website
www.beyond.ca. We neither have the time or patience anymore to respond to these very untrue, biased blogs on your website and will be filing a class action suit against
www.beyond.ca and any of its owners if The Gallery of fine cars is further mentioned hereforth in its website. We would also like any prior posts, blogs or mentions deleted from your system asap. We have set an appropriate deadline of June 23/2008 for someone to either respond or the above actions to be resolved otherwise we will be dealing with this in a legal manner. Thank you.
Justin Klee/Adriano Aprile
Owners
The Gallery of Fine Cars Inc.
1305 33rd Street NE
Calgary, AB T2E 6S8
I replied with this:
Hi Justin.
As you are probably aware, there are nearly 2.5 million posts on beyond, and the moderation team can not and does not read every post on the forums, nor can we authenticate the accuracy of every post. The content of each post lies with the users that write them, as clearly stated in our Terms of Use. We do not remove threads or posts because someone simply asks us to, this has been and always will be our style of moderation to allow our users a right to express their opinion, good or bad, even for sponsors of our site. We usually get requests after a reply like this to release information of users posting unfavorable opinions of you and/or your business, so I would like to inform you in advance that unless we are required to by a court order, such information will not be disclosed, again, as stated in our Terms of Use.
If you have specific posts that you feel are untrue, feel free to forward them to me and I will inform the user in question to modify or delete their post (each user has such a right). I personally recommend you use our Private Message system to communicate with the users directly, as it’s much faster than to have us perform the task.
If you still wish to proceed through a legal path (honestly, we get about 10 of these a year and you’ll be just wasting your money), you can forward your claim to our legal counsel for such matters at Bennett Jones.
Thanks.
Just a quick warning to those that have posted about Gallery of Fine Cars, if what you posted is the truth or opinion, there is nothing they can do legally to beyond.ca or to you. Hell, we even get money back when we counter sue for wasting our time.
If, however, what you posted is not the truth, then they can have a court order to have us remove the post, release your information, and they can sue you directly.
Legal Files: Gallery of Fine Cars threatens to sue beyond.ca
06-19-2008 10:08 PM
not another lawsuit, lets hope everything turns out on beyond favor
