[Public Prosecutor vs Rutinin Bin Sulaiman – K42-60-2010]
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Multimedia 1998[Akta 588] dan boleh dihukum di bawah subseksyen 233 (3) Akta yang
sama.
(Hukuman: Boleh didenda tidak melebihi lima puluh ribu ringgit atau dipenjarakan
selama tempoh tidak melebihi satu tahun atau kedua-dua)
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The prosecution called 19 witness to established its case. The essence of the
charge is that the accused had posted the remark “Sultan Perak Sudah
gilaaaaaa!!!!” on the online visitor book of the homepage of the HRH Sultan
of Perak. The online visitor book was hosted on the website address is
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http://books.dreambook.com/duli/duli.html and it was linked to the
homepage
of
HRH
http://sultan.perak.gov.my.
Sultan
of
The
Perak
case
was
which
is
hosted
investigated
Communications and Multi Media Commission.
by
at
the
The investigation
commenced after a report was lodged by P.W.1, who is an Information
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Officer attached to the Perak State Secretary’s office. She testified that it is
her duty to check all postings made on the online visitor book of the
homepage of the HRH Sultan of Perak’s website. She discovered that the
offensive posting in question was time stamped 6.33 p.m. and dated 13th
February 2009. She found that the posting bore the Internet Protocol (IP)
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address 60.52.46.189. She said that the IP address is the unique address
assigned to anyone using the internet by the internet service provider for a
particular session on the internet. The other essential witnesses were from
Telekom Malaysia Berhad. They testified that the Internet Protocol (IP)
address from which the comment in question was posted belonged to the
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accused person.
They also detected the Media Access Control (MAC)
address of the computer that was used for the internet session in question
when the offensive remark was posted. MAC address is the unique address
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