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California Could Get $500/Offense Spam Law

Posted by timothy on from the good-luck-collecting-any dept.

Bud Higgins writes "CNN has a story about a law the California Senate passed which will allow people to sue spammers for $500 per unwanted email. This is one of the strictest anti-spam measures in the country and will set a precedent for other states to follow." This bill needs to pass the state assembly and the governor to become a law, though.

11 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Wow by CptChipJew · · Score: 5, Funny

    The new get-rich-quick scheme:

    1. Get a Hotmail/Yahoo account
    2. Get rich.

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    Vonal Declosion
  2. Now all I need to do is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...filter spam out of the Trash folder and into the Money-Maker folder.

  3. Should clean up ignore list by bugsmalli · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess I should remove the ignore list from my hotmail and yahoo accounts...

  4. Weeeeee! by inertialmatrix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man oh, man! I can't wait!! With the amount of spam I recieve, I just may have found a get rich quick scheme that'll work.

    Screw the spammers! Weeeeeee!

    2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2

  5. And they'll need it too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    To pay off that billion dollar Oracle order they made...

  6. Well, the pigs are on the tarmac... by heretic108 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...because we're about to see a valid moral justification for lawyers in their droves getting rich!"

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    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  7. How to destroy your business competitor... by heretic108 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pose as an employee of your competitor, and hire a spamming company to promote them.

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    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  8. With the way California is going by Small+Hairy+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm surprised it's not a $500 tax per email.

  9. Re:Offtopic? Or so ontopic it just looks that way? by realdpk · · Score: 4, Funny

    In pine... uh.. hm.. don't.. hmm.. click? Hmm. Profit?

  10. Too broad? by wo1verin3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> people to sue spammers for $500 per unwanted email

    Does that mean if I get my Visa bill by e-mail I can sue? :P

  11. Re:bad news for the greatest spammer of them all.. by fenix+down · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Sue over spam
    2) Become millionares
    3) Use millions to buy X10 cameras and penis mightiers
    4) Repeat