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UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense
woodhouse writes "The BBC has an article about the new UK anti-spamming law which comes into force later this year. Under the new law, spammers can be fined up to 5000 pounds in a magistrates court, or an unlimited amount in the crown court. Sadly, prison terms won't be used to enforce of the new law."
Man, I had to reboot my windows box after running that. What kind of idiot are you, huh? With first post comes responsibility!
-jls
Techno-pagan
Oh no, we need to get these violent people off the streets before they e-mail again!
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
Sadly, prison terms won't be used to enforce of the new law.
Jail time? How about death sentence.
...straight to death sentence!
Seriously...while we all hate spam...someone *really* wants spammers in jail? On the right is the rapist, then murderer, then child molester, then spammer.
5000 pounds... I'd say, 2.5 tons is a pretty hefty fine :)
Billy Tauzin continues to promote Opt-out... which means anyone can spam you as much as possible until you complain. Then, they have someone else spam you, and then you complain, and then someone else spams you, and this continues until someone gets killed. Opt-out. What a terrible idea! But, no one in politics knows anything about technology. Most politicians are puppets. Democrats and Republicans both.
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What if instead of being fined 5000 pounds, spammers were forced to eat 5000 pounds of SPAM? Just a thought.
C'mon. This is North Carolina we're talking about here. I don't think that there's over a billion dollars in assets in all the carolinas.
After all, what's the going rate for a trailer?
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You were saying?
Do you really think the BBC will suffer the Slashdot effect? They won't even notice the extra traffic. They are the biggest and most visited content site (i.e. not Google) on the net and have bandwidth to spare. They have servers on at least two continents and publish their news in 43 languages. Now if the BBC posted a link to Slashdot on it's front page, then we might see the 'BBC effect'.
I too would like to see the end of Braveheart but sadly there are too many copies already out there to make it feasible.
Make them copy each mail...BY HAND!
If the spammer send 10 000 of a specific message:
Punish him by making him write 10 000 copies of the mail sent. With PEN and PAPER.
And of course... the spammer would have to pay for the papers and pens as well.
That ought to teach him/her!!!
And yeah... if the mail contains images or such...
let him/her write the ones and zeroes....
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let's stop with the juvenille, knee-jerk reactions
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The US will use the anti-spam laws around the world to their advantage, creating a massive subsidised US spam industry, and putting huge tariffs on all the 'unfair' imported spam.
Spam lobbyists will push for further subsidies each year while shutting out foreign spam supplies for their horrible spam dumping trade practices.
The WTO will find in favour of the foreign spam sources time and time again, but the US will continue on because US spam is the only true spam.
had enough?
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
I just love the way Americans always equate prison with forced anal intercourse. It's an everyday thing, just like going to McDonalds.
Never once heard any of you outraged over this matter. It's just a fact of life, and something you most probably deserve when you go to prison. A good hard pounding in the ass.
It's a good thing that the US legal system is infallible, and that your judges probably take this into account when they pass sentences. Five years imprisonment in most other developed countries probably equates to two years with three brutal ass poundings per day in an American one.
Mighty fine country you're running over there.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
I'm all for public stoning! I can honestly say I've never spammed and am willing to cast the first.
Dreams are better as dreams than reality.
Rav
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