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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.