WA Legislature Makes It Easier To Sue Spammers

jhylkema writes "According to the Seattle P-I, the Washington state legislature has unanimously passed a bill that makes it easier for spammers to be sued for $500 per message by allowing them to be sued in district ("the people's") court. This should put an end to the many problems that potential spam litigants have faced here. You can email Governor Locke here and ask him to sign it into law."

Comments

Re: Email govener locke

[SuperguyA1]

I can just imagine the flood of anti-spam email in Governor Locke's Inbox.

Sometimes irony is so ironic.

A couple of obvious points:

[DeComposer]

1.) If you do not live in the state of Washington, don't bother to email Gov. locke; he doesn't care about your opinion.

2.) If you do live in the state of Washington, there's probably not much point emailing Gov. Locke, anyway; the bill has passed unanimously in both the house and the senate. No governor is going to intentionally alienate 100% of his constituency.

OTOH, I'd feel better if his office had not declined to comment about his position...

What's needed

[Sandman1971]

What's needed is not only the capability of suing the spammer, but also suing the business which hired the spammer in the first place (which is much easier to find than the spammer him/herself). This way, it would discourage companies from hiring spammers, since they themselves would be liable.