Careful what you say online about MCN..

I do buy the MCN for something to read at lunch etc but I usually skip past the dramatic articles and haven't read the one about the TT but intrestingly in todays there is a letter from Dave Jeffries' dad saying the MCN were right to highlight the issues at the TT.

Originally Posted by Kate

I know there was a case relatively recently where it ruled in favour of the complaint (I can't remember the specifics).

see here Defamation

So we're not allowed to speak our minds on anything that may be important and/or bike related, but it's OK to clog the forum with ****e

[anna]

Originally Posted by Kate

I believe if the site is located on a server in the UK, then the owners of the forum can be held accountable for the content of the forum.

This isnt always the case but the penalties are likely to be brought under UK law.. it isnt yet know if a site can be accessed via the USA or another country if the legal jurisdiction of that country may be able to bring action against a site under their laws... ie Yahoo's current litigation with the French courts over the availability of Nazi memorabiia on Yahoo's sites have lasted for well over four years now.. because it is legal precidents the cases are likely to be huge and expensive.

This means that the likes of this forum and others who are not muli billion pound websites can not afford to have these sorts of actions brought against them!

So IF somebody pointed out in a totally innocent manner that the initials MCN typically known as "MotorCycle News" also spell "More Crap than News" that would qualify them for a letter form the MCN lawyers?

You're safe with that it's FACT

So we could just learn from this and give our cash to causes other then the EMAP dynasty?

The tabloid sensationalism of MCN is becoming tragic comedy in recent years. About time we, the buying public, voted with our cash.

[Biker Biggles]

I bought MCN for the first time in ages last month.It cost £1.70,and got me £2.00 off my entry to the BMF show.I can't think of any other reason to buy it though,and I hope that opinion was not libelous.

[anna]

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

I bought MCN for the first time in ages last month.It cost £1.70,and got me £2.00 off my entry to the BMF show.I can't think of any other reason to buy it though,and I hope that opinion was not libelous.

I can think of another reason.. it got me £100 off my new lid last month

I'm still laughing at the collective noun post.

A clunge of c****. Quality!

[northwind]

There's a wee bit of a possible conflict of interest with VD too, since Ben works for one of the Emap mags...

(edit: that was really careless wording. Not implying that Ben is biased or somehow an Emap puppet, he's a good guy- but it's not just legal action he'd have to worry about, the guy has to pay the bills too.