Venulum Group, a multinational private wealth management company headquartered in the British Virgin Islands, found the authors of anonymous internet posts defaming the firm that appeared on the web in September 2008.
The objective of the US law firm engaged by the BVI group was to identify the bloggers to enable libel action. The host website of the blog forum provided 7 posts. After successfully serving the founder of the website for non-compliance of subpoena regarding the remaining 7 posts, Venulum is considering enforcement in New York. If these posts have been made by the webhost, it will lose its safe harbor protection, found that it edits and publishes on a forum. The webhost claims to have various offices in the US, but none of them are active or operational.
The agent of the company found various individuals in the Czech Republic. The webhost founder does retain an office in New York, which is where the webhost is invoiced. The large majority of the unregistered posts have been identified as two former employees of the group, against one of them the lawsuit is filed.