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| November 17, 2000 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ross Kerber

Nov. 17--In what cyber-privacy advocates are calling a partial victory, a ruling by a Pittsburgh judge would make it harder to unmask anonymous online authors.

A judge in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas issued a decision this week allowing another judge to learn the identity of the author of two Web sites that allegedly defamed her. But the judge also wrote that people bringing such suits must show the merits of their complaints when seeking to uncover online critics, who often write using pseudonyms.

A plaintiff, he wrote, "should not be able to use the rules of discovery to obtain the identity of an anonymous publisher…

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