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."

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could be worse

[Anonymous Coward]

Better to be fined up to 5000 pounds in a magistrates court...

...than to be pounded by 5000 magistrates.

...or courted by a 5000 pound magistrate.

Oh no!

[Prince_Ali]

Sadly, prison terms won't be used to enforce of the new law.

Oh no, we need to get these violent people off the streets before they e-mail again!

Billy Tauzin's Opt-Out spam bill

[bs_02_06_02]

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.

Re:Huh?

[spuke4000]

let's stop with the juvenille, knee-jerk reactions

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