If you're challenged with a legal letter, the procedure is very simple: You don't antagonise the complainant further. You don't get on your high horse and assume you're right. You show goodwill, perhaps go as far as to remove the article until you've run it past your own legal team. When you're satisfied that you haven't blundered, then publish away and tell the lawyers to get back in their box.
Instead of endless speculation let's look at the real world.
Yes the website as publisher is responsible for anything posted there but during the past year alone how many people have been up in court for stuff posted on facebook or Twitter in the UK alone? And in how many of those cases has facebook or Twitter themselves been up in court?
None!
Because any legal team given a choice between suing an individual in the UK or a multi-billion dollar corporation based in the US will always go for the little guy. Now AVHerald doesn't have the resources of Twitter or facebook but if it is confident of the integrity of what it has published it should not be bullied into backing down because of what a particular subscriber may or may not have posted.
As has been posted a couple of times on this thread, RYR are not going to go bust because of one post on one forum. If it ever did come to court, damages to RYR would be estimated as pence rather than hundreds of pounds.
SoS
Oh and can a mod explain why if I type T w i t t e r it is posted as PPrune?
