I hadn't even known this had happened, thank you for writing this up. I completely sympathize, I relied on an online pseudonym for years just for my own sanity. "Outing" people has long been a debate among the circle I travel in who text roleplay on livejournal. When someone changes names and email addresses to start over or carry on multiple fake lives gets messy when we're talking about trust and emotional bonds. Possibly putting someone's livelihood or safety at risk in addition to that is morally reprehensible and just because it's online doesn't change anything. If anybody tries this shit in my country's legal system there will be hell to pay. "Just because he wished to remain anonymous... did not mean that he had a reasonable expectation to remain anonymous." Bull. Shit. And why the hell did the newspaper care enough about his real name to take it to court anyways?