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by Mike Caswell

Intertainment Media Inc. has won court orders directing Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. to reveal the identities of four forum posters, including one who called the company a "pure scam." The orders, handed down after an application hearing on Wednesday, April 25, instruct Stockhouse to provide names, IP addresses and any other information that will help identify forum users "Nub92," "MaydayMalone," "f3drivr" and "CESpumper." Stockhouse did not oppose the application.

The orders come just weeks after Intertainment filed two defamation suits against the users in the Supreme Court of British Columbia over negative comments in the Stockhouse forums. The company complained that the users posted information that was untrue and that they seriously injured its reputation. One of the posts the company cited, written by MaydayMalone on Oct. 10, 2011, read, "this stock is a scam run by criminals for criminals at the expense of shareholders accept [sic] it." Intertainment complained that readers would have understood the post to mean that the company is managed by criminals who are fraudulently causing losses to shareholders.

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