Legal Question in Technology Law in Tennessee

Computer Data Destruction

Hello, earlier today I was talking to two people (one a good friend of mine) and the other a friend of my friend. We were just pinging websites and comparing our connection speeds and all that but his friend was being very arrogant and was insulting my computer abilities. I had given him a command for the CMD in windows XP that designates a file to delete and he thought it was somthing else and didn't designate a single file. I thought with his abilities he would understand the command. He did not. He instead had just copy'd and pasted it and left it at *.* so it deleted his whole tree. He then said he was going to get legal help in sueing me etc as he had lost a lot of files. Afterwards I tried to help him restore his information, but he said he could not change anything as it was needed for evidence. I live in Canada and he lives in the United States, I was just wondering if he has any power to pursue a case against me for data destruction or something of the like, or if he just trying to scare me.


Asked on 8/08/05, 9:38 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Lawrence Graves Coolidge & Graves PLLC

Re: Computer Data Destruction

Assuming the correctness of the facts presented in your query, this is just silly. Also, as you well know, his situation is fixable with relatively minimal effort by someone competent in the field. Just ignore him until/unless you get a demand letter from a lawyer.

Best wishes,

LDWG

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Answered on 8/09/05, 9:43 am


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