I have spoken to at least 20 or 30 people [who have dealt with this], and I have seen subpoenas that have hundreds of names on them. |
If the judge rules as it's reasonable to expect at this point, it will leave the question for another day. It's something we're going to see come up again and again. |
It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism? |
It's going to be an important case, because it will go forward in raising a lot of questions ranging from rules that all journalists should follow when protecting their (sources) to the very definition of what a journalist is in the digital age. |
Just because we are talking about the Internet does not mean we should lose the right to speak anonymously. |
This case comes at a time when people are starting to recognize that the information they put into their computers creates a record. In the bigger picture, as people input more information into computers, they are losing control over that. We're leaving a digital footprint with all sorts of information about ourselves. |
We are going to continue to pursue this until we get some rules from the court that will protect users' anonymity online. |