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Californian Court Fines Spammers $2 Million

Posted by timothy on from the not-nearly-enough dept.

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!).

3 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. Re:$1000 per e-mail? by rokzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the RIAA doesn't want $10,000 damages from each song, it wants 150,000.

    so the scale of punishment is still nowhere near comparable.

  2. Re:Money? Bah! by tarnin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bah its early for me and my first coffee hasnt sunk into my skull yet.

  3. Re:free speech my ass by You're+All+Wrong · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is your sig supposed to have a 'z' in it?
    Typing on a German keyboard?
    Or a German typeing on a US keyboard?

    I guess I just violated the DMCA, oops, sorry.

    YAW.

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