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NY AG Sues MonsterHut Over Marketing Spam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the false-advertising dept.

Ian Hill writes: "This BBC article tells how NY State Attorney Elliot Spitzer has sued marketing firm MonsterHut.com over "millions" of unsolicited e-mails. He claims MonsterHut.com falsely told its clients that e-mails sent on their behalf were sent to addresses who registered themselves as interested parties. Also at question is how exactly these addresses were collected." eviljim adds a link to a press release from New York's Attorney General and a reminder of how MonsterHut was disconnected from their ISP.

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  1. Reality Check... by toupsie · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    1) NY State Attorney Elliot Spitzer is nothing more than a "Look At Me" political hack that will sue any organization that will get his mug on NY television. He is essentially a shakedown artist that uses the post of AG to harass companies that are not popular with the Democratic Party. Not to say that SPAMMERS are popular with Republicans (at least not with this one). One of his more outrageous shakedowns was when he was suing adoption agencies that did not offer abortion services in order to pander to pro-choice voters. Why would an adoption agency want to kill babies?

    2) This case will have no effect on the SPAM that is currently coming into your e-mail box. Monsterhut is already kaput.

    3) NY State has no real SPAM laws so Spitzer is mangling current law to go after a defunct SPAM house.

    4) Do you really think that Spitzer is going to get $500 a pop for 500 million e-mails from a defunct SPAM house? Or do you think he will waste thousands, if not millions, of tax payer dollars promoting his "high-tech savvy" trying to squeeze blood from a rock?

    5) How can the AG of NY State sue a company that "violated the rights of consumers" in other states? Wouldn't that be the job of the US AG or the Federal Trade Commission?

    Unfortunately, the time and money wasted by Spitzer in this "Look At Me" case would have been better spent in the State Legislature crafting an anti-SPAM bill that goes after all spammers instead of one high profile SPAM house. Also, this will do nothing about the likes of btamail.net.cn. What is Spitzer going to do about them?

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  2. against the individuals by oliverthered · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bringing perjury charges aginst people sure sounds nice, but in practice you'd have noone left in the states.
    E.G.
    Bill Clinton,
    Most of microsoft,
    Most of the prosicuting states (they must have told a fib or two?)
    Anyone who's ever been sued,
    Anyone who's ever sued.
    Any the parot that said it couldn't talk. (Called Bush or somthing?)

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