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Californian Court Fines Spammers $2 Million
afra242 writes "The BBC News has reported that a Californian court has fined a marketing firm $2m for spamming via email. This judgement was the first anti-spam ruling and the marketing firm were fines for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails telling people how to spam. We're getting closer..." Other readers point to coverage of the judgement from the Associated Press (via SFGate) and from Reuters (via Yahoo!).
Great! When do I get my share?
...to our American brethren, since they have more guns than us and most of my spam seems to originate from the States... you see where I'm going with this? :)
Post 9/11, folks were afraid to fly. When the infamous Washington Sniper was still at large, people would avoid the streets; they'd weave and dodge as they walked. With no disrespect to any of those involved, my point is that a couple of high-profile, well-publicised incidents generally scares people into modifying their behaviour if they feel they might be putting themselves at risk in light of those incidents.
So, if we murder a bunch of spammers - preferably in some hideous, ritualist fashion, and preferably live on national TV (or hey, pay-per-view - I'd pay to see that!) - you think it might scare the rest of 'em into behaving like civilised human beings for a while?
(posted anonymously 'cos the spammers probably have guns too...)
Whats $2 million to people who have buisness contacts in Nigeria, have hundereds of thousands of dollars in cash through the mail every day, have a 16" penis, get free prescription drugs, have computer patches delivered to their inbox, have free accounts at thousands of porn sites and have 17 mail order Russian brides.