[Public Prosecutor vs Rutinin Bin Sulaiman – K42-60-2010] 35 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) 40 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 45 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 50 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) 55 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 60 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 2

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