After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.
Just to be clear, the company is sueing for defemation, in which the hackors claims could have damaged their image.
Either way if the hackers are correct they will be able to prove this in court no problem.
This would really be bad for the company, so as far as I’m aware they have only threatened this for the media and are not going through with it.
Remember that this isn’t America. The legal definition of defamation is probably different. In some jurisdictions, even true statements can constitute defamation.
IANAL, however here you have such a thing: Defamation doesn’t have to be considered a crime if it’s a public statement of a fact that either concerns public official or is expressed in defense of a legitimate interest (this one here would be right to repair, right to fair competition, strategic interests of the state and some others)
this is basically translation of a snippet from some lawyer’s blog, and i’m not fluent in legalese
Just to be clear, the company is sueing for defemation, in which the hackors claims could have damaged their image. Either way if the hackers are correct they will be able to prove this in court no problem. This would really be bad for the company, so as far as I’m aware they have only threatened this for the media and are not going through with it.
Remember that this isn’t America. The legal definition of defamation is probably different. In some jurisdictions, even true statements can constitute defamation.
IANAL, however here you have such a thing: Defamation doesn’t have to be considered a crime if it’s a public statement of a fact that either concerns public official or is expressed in defense of a legitimate interest (this one here would be right to repair, right to fair competition, strategic interests of the state and some others)
this is basically translation of a snippet from some lawyer’s blog, and i’m not fluent in legalese
Not the case in Poland.
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