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Fighting Spam With A 17th Century Law

Posted by Hemos on from the look-to-the-past-for-our-current-tools dept.

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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  1. Trespass to chattels by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Informative

    This same legal construction has been used in the U.S. in lawsuits regarding unwanted access to servers and computer resources. AOL has used this as a legal tool against spammers in lawsuits.

  2. You wish you were British???? by Stoutlimb · · Score: 4, Informative

    And you think that you have issues with Big Brother now... wait till you see what the English have in store for you... Pretty soon in England you won't even be able to take a sh!t without having it logged in a GPS-enabled toilet and uploaded to a mainframe database to be added to your profile.

    Careful what you ask for... The brits are the worst for privacy issues.