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post #16 of 21
1/12/11 at 3:48pm

What about a simple link to the other websites? Would that also be out of bounds?

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post #17 of 21
1/12/11 at 5:24pm
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Right now, I'll just say that the thing is escalating over there. But of course I don't dare giving any more info regarding this thing.

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post #18 of 21
1/12/11 at 6:51pm
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Long story short. I know something about a company. I can put all that here on Head-Fi, it concerns a certain portable player maker. That company is based in the USA. I am in Canada.

What are the chances of me getting sued? I'm not a whistleblower since I do not work for that company. All this info is posted on some other websites.



I'm not a lawyer. Is this a privately or publically owned company? If it's publically owned, maybe you can contact the shareholders and institute a shareholder derivative against the board. This way you can avoid getting directly involved in the suit aside from being a witness. You won't be in court, as it'll probably go to an independent arbitrator. Another route may be to inform a federal regulatory agency or the state's attorney's general office. That's all I got.

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post #19 of 21
1/12/11 at 8:43pm
If there's already a lawsuit, you could point us to that. Lawsuits are public record and you aren't going to get sued for mentioning it. Very broadly (and I can't give legal advice here) you're fine unless you make a derogatory statement.

If you make a pos asserting that company X is defrauding customers, etc., then you could get in trouble. Saying that company X is suing individual Y for making defamatory statements is different. That's a statement of fact about a public event. Same as a news report.

I would not repeat the allegations just to be safe. But if you mentioned just the lawsuit, everyone can run searches, find information on their own, and read up.
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post #20 of 21
1/13/11 at 6:11am
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OK. The whole lawsuit thing is based on posts under the name of the company's CEO and posts of that "first guy". There are no links to anything.

I don't know whether I should say more to clear some things up, because if I do, you will all know which company it is. I can't give you a link to those threads and posts because everything is way too obvious, and if somebody sees this stuff on Head-Fi and reports me (or head-Fi itself), then...

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post #21 of 21
1/13/11 at 6:49am

Can you just post the title of the case or the name of the company?  People can Google the rest.

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