What is the name of your state? Michigan
I'm 18 if it matters
If you're familiar with myspace, this is much easier. If not, myspace is basically a website for people to meet eachother (not really a dating site) but a networking type site that many (mostly young) people use to meet and greet and whatnot. Anyways, a friend of mine, who is 17, created several fake accounts posing as teachers from my old high school. He used some vulgar terms and whatnot, and they were all pretty much negative. Some of the information was true, some was not. The school has yet to find out who it is, but many of the teachers want to press charges on the people who did it. I have been involved in trouble on the internet before (i was never sued or anything but just in trouble at school), so I am an obvious suspect. The headmaster of the school (i no longer attend there; i graduated) has started to interrogate my younger sophomore brother and is trying to get him to say that i made some of the sites (which i didnt; i have no tie to this other than the fact that i have viewed them and i know who made them). All the accounts were made with mailinator e-mail addresses, making them very hard to trace. one of the teachers says he wants to sue myspace, saying that it's their job to verify that all the information on there is true. so my first question is, does he have a chance at all of suing a multi-million dollar corporation that i do not believe has any responsibility to verify that information? he then told me that he was next going to sue the kid who did it, but there's really no way for him to find out that i know of. the only way i know of would be for him to get a court order for myspace to release the IP addresses of who logged into those accounts, which would cost him alot of money in legal fees, right?
Secondly, I think that I will be suspected in this case if lawsuits are ever brought up. I told my parents, "good, let them try to sue me, the burden of proof is on them." my parents (one a cpa who deals with law fairly often) said, "you're an idiot. you'll have to pay tons of legal fees and whatnot to defend yourself." I don't see why I would even need a lawyer, because I have nothing to defend, because I am not involved. They have to prove that I did anything, which they can't and won't. So basically, I want to know if I have to worry about getting a lawyer and I have anything to worry about. And if they can't prove anything, could i bring up any type of counter-suit? If you need anymore info, let me know.
Thanks a bunch
I'm 18 if it matters
If you're familiar with myspace, this is much easier. If not, myspace is basically a website for people to meet eachother (not really a dating site) but a networking type site that many (mostly young) people use to meet and greet and whatnot. Anyways, a friend of mine, who is 17, created several fake accounts posing as teachers from my old high school. He used some vulgar terms and whatnot, and they were all pretty much negative. Some of the information was true, some was not. The school has yet to find out who it is, but many of the teachers want to press charges on the people who did it. I have been involved in trouble on the internet before (i was never sued or anything but just in trouble at school), so I am an obvious suspect. The headmaster of the school (i no longer attend there; i graduated) has started to interrogate my younger sophomore brother and is trying to get him to say that i made some of the sites (which i didnt; i have no tie to this other than the fact that i have viewed them and i know who made them). All the accounts were made with mailinator e-mail addresses, making them very hard to trace. one of the teachers says he wants to sue myspace, saying that it's their job to verify that all the information on there is true. so my first question is, does he have a chance at all of suing a multi-million dollar corporation that i do not believe has any responsibility to verify that information? he then told me that he was next going to sue the kid who did it, but there's really no way for him to find out that i know of. the only way i know of would be for him to get a court order for myspace to release the IP addresses of who logged into those accounts, which would cost him alot of money in legal fees, right?
Secondly, I think that I will be suspected in this case if lawsuits are ever brought up. I told my parents, "good, let them try to sue me, the burden of proof is on them." my parents (one a cpa who deals with law fairly often) said, "you're an idiot. you'll have to pay tons of legal fees and whatnot to defend yourself." I don't see why I would even need a lawyer, because I have nothing to defend, because I am not involved. They have to prove that I did anything, which they can't and won't. So basically, I want to know if I have to worry about getting a lawyer and I have anything to worry about. And if they can't prove anything, could i bring up any type of counter-suit? If you need anymore info, let me know.
Thanks a bunch