2ch.net is about to be closed?

http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0701/12/news046.html

If I get it right someone posted personal info about one office manager (his real name, family members names and his home address). He decided to sue Hiroyuki Nishimura (the owner and admin of 2ch) in order to recieve information about poster. Otherwise, he's asking to arrest all Nishimura's property (wich includes Nishimura's bank account, motorbike, computer and 2ch.net domain name) and making him pay 5000000 yen of compensation.
Though I need better translation of that article.

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Something like this happens to Hiroyuki every once in a while. Some of the other popular lawsuits involved people making threats to do something, like kill people on a subway train or whatnot. Most of these are false, but I think there were at least two cases where they turned out to be true. Hiroyuki has dodged most of these so far, even the lawsuits that he lost, but about the only thing that has really come from them so far is that one lawsuit forced him to start logging IP addresses, so if a similar threat was made, then the authorities could look into it.

There's a pretty good Wikipedia article on the guy, and it outlines this stuff better than I can. He has over 100 mods who run the site for him, and he's only met about 10 in real life. He says he just does the dirty work for the site, which is mostly court appearances with occasional interviews about the site's culture and growing popularity.