Australian court considers online libel

An Australian court has begun a hearing to determine the
proper location for hearing litigation between a well known Australian and the American newspaper that is alleged to have libel him.  Counsel cited an 1848 case that found that publication, and therefore jurisdiction, was where the plaintiff sent his servant to purchase the newspaper.  Counsel drew an analogy between the servant
and an Internet ‘get message’, which went to the US to fetch the offending article.