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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Re:spamhaus rebutts this claim

[Morosoph]

The BBC article sais:

Under the new law, companies will have to get permission from an individual before they can send them an e-mail or text message.

Whereas Spamhaus say:

From 11 December it will be legal to send spam to the millions of hapless employees of British businesses (as long as each spammer gives each employee the opportunity to 'opt-out' of his individual spam campaign).

So which is right?

I'd assume that it is Spamhaus. Shame the BBC can't get their stories straight :-(