Fighting Spam With A 17th Century Law

A reader writes "Here is an interesting article which describes how a law from the year 1610 could make Spam illegal in Australia. The same story in german can be found here." Actually, since the law stems from King James I (the VI, if you are Scottish), as such, could be held British Commonwealth wide.

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Canada is no longer a commonwealth

[Billly Gates]

They seperated about 25 years ago from the crown. This is why their flag is a red maple leaf and not some other design with a british commonwealth logo on the upper left hand side.

What we need to do is have a full counter revolution here in the states and be back under british rule. After that we would have more civil rights.

Its a sad day indeed when an American wishes there were under british rule because they want more personal freedoms. I bet all our countrie's fore fathers would be turning in there graves right now if they knew how much influence hollywood and other corporations have right now. The telecommunications act of 1996, the DMCA, and the wipo act, are just the begining of whats going to happen if you look at how much money has gone into the olitical system in the last 20 years. More money has gone in during the primaries of 2000 then the whole election of 1992! Guess who were the top contributers? MPAA, RIAA, ENron, AT&T, Verizon, GE, health insurance companies, etc. Sick sick sick.