Be cautious.

Be cautious of what you blog and write about. You could be the next to endure GreenZap's $57.5 million lawsuit. But this dreadful plight does not only affect bloggers but website hosting companies as well.

The news reads in part:

GreenZap®, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GZPN) (the "Company"), an online payment provider, has filed a lawsuit against website-hosting-company Liquid Web, Inc. and Vodien, Inc. for a total of $57.5 million. The suit is the first of many GreenZap is preparing against individual bloggers and hosting companies that maintain websites where defamatory comments are being posted concerning GreenZap and its executives.

According to GreenZap Vice President linda Murphy, attempts made by GreenZap to communicate with the bloggers were met with malicious attacks. GreenZap's counsel sent several letters to Liquid Web, Inc. requesting it voluntarily shut down one of its hosted websites due to its harmful and libelous content, but to no avail. The registered owners of the website, Vodien, Inc., have a Singapore address and have ignored GreenZap in spite of the company's attempts. In addition to the hosting company, GreenZap has been able to identify several individual bloggers responsible for many of the postings and intends to add them to the action.

According to GreenZap CEO Damon Westmoreland, "The websites are nothing more than an online soap opera. There is advertising on these sites and the owners are getting paid based on the traffic they receive. Our company grew quickly over the last year, acquiring over 750,000 users mostly in the direct sales market, which presented an opportunity for these cyber-offenders to ride our coat tails and make a buck by defaming our company."