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Earthlink Wins Another Spam Award: $16 million

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-just-try-to-collect-it dept.

linuxwrangler writes "U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. awarded Earthlink $16 million and an injunction against Howard Carmack for Carmack's use of Earthlink to deliver spam. Given that Earthlink is still awaiting payment of the $25 million it won against Kahn C. Smith last year, it views the injunction as the bigger of the two wins." A few more of these, and maybe the tide of spam will eb. Maybe. Nah.

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  1. Payment in Goods? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seeing as how these spammers probably DON'T have millions of dollars in the bank, and even Microsoft was able to negotiate for penalties being only in software, is Earthlink likely to get a truck load of $16M of penile enhancement cream and Nigerian banknotes in compensation?

  2. Re: "Patriot" Legislation... by nametaken · · Score: 4, Funny

    Couldn't they bend 'spam' into a legally actionable offense by calling it 'terrorism'?

    I know the idea of a site that sells penis enlarging devices and offers college degrees for $19.95, terrorizes me.