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Another Go At Making Spam Cost Money

Posted by timothy on from the lawyers-are-involved-so-it-will-cost-money dept.

wario78 writes: "The BBC is running a story about the law firm Morrison and Foerster which is claiming damages against the spam company Etracks based in California. They are asking for $50 in damages for each spam they receive, up to the maximum of $25,000 per day. Nice to see a lawyer doing something community-oriented for a change (even if they are just trying to make a profit from it)."

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  1. mofo is like that by joe094287523459087 · · Score: 5, Informative

    mofo is known (in the North Cali legal community anyway) as a very progressive firm. they go out of their way to hire people of color, women, and handicapped folks, and take on many pro-bono cases that require a large investment. they also take "principle" cases - those cases that can likely result in a beneficial precendent but may not be profitable for the plaintiff.

    so it's not surprising to me that they would expand that social-cause reach to technology too, in the legal realm.