The lawyers have been hovering for ages, waiting for soething to happen. They're still hovering, still waiting. In all the landmark cases, common carrier status has been pleaded and accepted *unless* the forum is fully moderated (that is to say posts are made, reviewed by a moderator, and *then* published - see the Transport 2000 site for one such).

In a fully moderated forum, the act of review and then publishing sets the tone - the moderator publishes the post, not the poster.

In an unmoderated forum (which is what this is, although it may be referred to as a post-moderated forum, indicative that moderation takes place after publication - the order is important) moderators cannot be held responsible for posts - they provide the mechanism for free flow of ideas, and it is the poster who publishes the piece.

Further, no lawyer specialising in libel suits would consider a suit where the defence of "honestly held opinion" is obvious - neither would they consider taking on a penniless defendant unless the aim was to bankrupt.

'tis a wonderful world, the world of libel and defamation!!

BTW, I wouldn't have worn the blatant advertising of hand-built amps by a third party - the post would have been vaped ASAP!! :-)

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As hifistudios said, that was exactly why I didn't post the name of a competitor. I was asking whether price matching was done at iMuso ... you have answered me.

:bows deeply: I hope I didn't offend however - that was not my wish.

As for iMuso's own pricing, I quite agree. In 99% of all items sold, iMuso's price is the same or lower than any other competitor ... you can see why I asked about the 1% though can't you?

(And to hifistudios ... another editor! I must admit to only 11 years experience myself and I rather wish I had gone into law. With a law degree, I could make an absolute fortune out of publishing law!)

> And to hifistudios ... another editor! I must admit to only 11 years experience myself and I rather wish I had gone
> into law. With a law degree, I could make an absolute fortune out of publishing law!)

Oh, hell, yes! Specifically, Internet publishing - it has opened up a whole new can of worms.

But, frankly, I'm rather more content moving all my efforts into the music world - true, there's not as much money around as there was, but it's a whole lot less stressful than the publishing world at the moment.

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oh, my god.

Thats for a danelectro talkbox. posted. about £100 posted in the uk.

godamnit, its so expensive to live in the uk.

Yeah - but we do got the best beer in the world! 

Far better than that German swill.