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Will Bounties Cure The Spam Problem?

Posted by timothy on from the hang-'em-high dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a pointer to a piece in today's Mercury News about Lawrence Lessig's proposed spam-bounty legislation, excerpting: "If the law passes, citizens could be eligible for rewards of thousands of dollars or more if they're the first to provide the government with proof and the identity of offending spammers."

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  1. YEEHAW!!!!!! by spoonist · · Score: 5, Funny

    SADDLE UP, BOYS!

    I'M PUTTIN' ME TOGETHER A POSSE!

    We're gonna round up them bandwidth rustlers and get us the bounty!

    1. Re:YEEHAW!!!!!! by doktor-hladnjak · · Score: 5, Funny
      Hmmm... Perhaps, we've stumbled on a new opportunity for unemployed Slashdotters.

      Setting: cocktail party

      "So what do you do for a living?"
      "I'm a bounty hunter--a spammer bounty hunter."

      How cool would that look on a resume? Boring freelancers and consultants eat your hearts out!

  2. That's an easy one... by bergeron76 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mike Wendland - public enemy number 1.

    Now where do I pick up that check...?

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  3. Proof? by jasonditz · · Score: 5, Funny
    "If the law passes, citizens could be eligible for rewards of thousands of dollars or more if they're the first to provide the government with proof and the identity of offending spammers."

    Proof? What year do they think this is?!

    Hasn't it already been established that the act of accusing them is proof enough? Send them to Guantanamo Bay, they'll confess in due course.

  4. I prefer this version... by exhilaration · · Score: 4, Funny
    "If the law passes, citizens could be eligible for rewards of thousands of dollars or more if they're the first to provide the government with the scalps or the severed heads of offending spammers."

  5. One important question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dead or alive?

  6. Coming soon by skillet-thief · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hello [your name spelled wrong]

    Want to make as much as $3000/week, without leaving home!?! Become a Spam Bounty hunter! Just buy Doctor Bob's 12-step program for hunting down spammers...

    etc.

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    Congratulations! Now we are the Evil Empire

  7. Easy Money by sik0fewl · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Start my own spam company
    2) Turn myself in
    3) ???
    4) Profit

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  8. Am I the only one... by Resident+Geek · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...who thinks that this would make a cool anime series? Imagine, a group of shady characters with dubious histories, coming together through necessity and circumstance to bust baddies. Think of the storytelling possibilities!

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