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Since you failed to even add a basic legal disclaimer to your own blog I will pass. Unless of course you are stating that your blog constitutes legal advice and I can sue you if things go wrong for me...

Every law student will attest that nothing replaces the advice of actual legal counsel. Even lawyers get a lawyer when they need one since you need someone with expertise that up to and including that minute.

If you want example of a sterling legal disclaimer then check out

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/aboutus.aspx#Disclaimer

A website dedicated to providing legal information.

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I think a lot of these "not legal advice" disclaimers are overkill. You can't get proper "legal advice" from a blog. You get legal advice when you hire a lawyer. A blog might be full of accurate and useful legal information, but that doesn't make it "legal advice" in the sense that you can sue the blogger for legal malpractice.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but has anyone actually seen such a lawsuit?

Depends if you consider the blog and subsequent invitation on HN to be an offer to treat - acceptance being the implementation of said advice.

Without a legal disclaimer then the blog could theoretically be held accountable as they positioned themselves as the authority and invited action.

> If you want example of a sterling legal disclaimer then check out...

Is this legal advice? Can I sue you?

Are you a moron? Who would you sue - the username?

Lawyers have historically had little trouble suing John Does and subpoenaing ISPs/websites to get access to IPs and the users underneath them.

All that said, the point apparently wooshed a few miles above your head.

Nope. The point was a snark which does more to embarrass the poster than myself.

I posted a link to someone else's legal disclaimer as an example of how legal advisory services protect themselves. They used it to try and paraphrase my own comment back to me, unsuccessfully.

You could subpoena HN but it would display a startling lack of understanding about ISPs, legal process, HN and the Internet.

One, a subpoena has to be delivered in person...

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