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Lawsuits Against Spammers
apc writes "Pretty good overview of the state of the law
regarding spammers, and some stories about people who have sued them and won. Nice to see the topic getting mainstream attention."
It talks about several different states and several different people who
have won cases. I still think its fairly hopeless, but I also believe forging
SMTP headers should be legally punishable by castration.
This is not the first post so you may ignore it.
We need to make hacking have the same punishment. Oh yeah, most of you already have no balls.
slashdot sucks
Most of us hate spam, but there are always those stupid users that click on every email promising another money-making opportunity. If you make an authenticated-mail protocol, that means everyone needs to use it, but those people targeted by spammers are the late adopters of new tech, so I don't think it would work too well.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, though I'm not yet sure about the universe. - A Einstein
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I'm not sure if this was meant to be a troll, or if you are just misinformed, but your post contains a number of glaring errors, which I feel I must clear up.
First of all, "GPL" does not stand for "Gnu Protective License," as you suggest. In fact, it stands for "Grand Prince of Liceses." When Red Hat finished writing Linux, they quickly realized that their operating system was vastly superior to all others available, and decided to come up with a license to guarantee that it would ascend the thrown. Hence, the GPL.
Secondly, I think that you and your lawyers have misread the GPL. While it is true that you must release source for any products compiled with GPL tools, in fact the GPL goes further. Anyone who has ever looked at the source of a GPL-licensed program must release source (under what is known as a "GPL-compatible license") for all software he or she writes after that point.
Now, this may seem a little harsh to you, but, try to look at it from Red Hat's perspective. They wrote the greatest operating system ever. And they made it freely available for you to look at. Now, if you take and reuse their brilliant ideas, isn't that theft of their intellectual property? And, how are they to know that you're not reusing their ideas if you don't release your source?
In any case, I trust that your company will quickly comply with the terms of the GPL, and begin releasing source immediately. Fortunately, a Red Hat subsidiary named VA Software has a website called SourceForge.net that will help you to comply with the GPL by providing project hosting, version control, bug and issue tracking, project management, backups and archives, and communication and collaboration resources for open source projects.
Is there a technical solution?
Technically, the guillotine is a technical solution. To the poster whom you replied, technically, law is a social solution. Since there are both technical and social solutions to the problem of SPAM, and since SPAM persists, SPAM is not a problem. I like receiving it, I making millions off it, and most of all, I looooove the Lunix Freedom Software.
Well, I belive the reason that 'sicko' sites spam whereas 'normal' sites do not is that the main-stream porn industry simply does not spam at all. The practice has been banned by the industry association. Any pornographic spam you get is for cheap companies and individuals who are not really a part of the industry.
Btw, if you do want some normal porn, I know a great website you might want to check out...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You forgot about this and this.
I read an artical about it somewhere, forgot the offical name. Its not like I'm trying to pose as some kind of 'insider' or something :P
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.