改名没用。可查IP地址的。当然她有麻烦,因为法院和律师要去查它的网站。他要配合调查。Anonymous PostingsWhile Canadian courts have been willing to assist plaintiffs in identifying defendants using anonymous or fictitious Internet names to send defamatory e-mails, a recent Alberta decision illustrates that it can still be difficult to establish the author of Internet postings.In Vaquero Energy v. Weir, Robert Waldner, the president and CEO of Vaquero Energy Ltd. and his company commenced litigation as a result of defamatory messages posted on an Internet chat room operated by Stockhouse Media Corporation, which provides financial information to subscribers. The e-mails accused Waldner of being insane, managing the company for his own benefit and compared him to Osama bin Laden and others.In the quest to ferret out the author, Stockhouse Media appears to have provided the plaintiffs with Internet protocol (IP) addresses for the sender of the e-mails. These addresses were then traced to Interface, an internet service provider in Toronto, whose records showed that one of the IP addresses was assigned to a router which in turn hosted several companies including Currah Capital. The defendant, Nick Weir, was a business consultant who shared space with Currah Capital.Weir denied sending the postings. He testified that three other people had access to his computer and he called an expert in computer forensics who explained that someone could have "spoofed" Weir's IP address. The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench rejected Weir's evidence and concluded that he had sent the e-mails. The court noted, for example, that the defamatory e-mails stopped on the day Weir was served with the statement of claim.In assessing damages, Madam Justice Kent concluded that the anonymous nature of the postings increased the risk that the defamatory remarks would be believed, which "aggravates the defamation." The court assessed damages to Vaquero in the amount of $10,000 and awarded $40,000 to Waldner. In addition, the defendant was directed to pay punitive damages of $25,000 to Waldner.