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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!).

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  1. Bull by NotoriousBob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thats a slap on their wrist. Now, send the CEO of to the pen so his cell mate can make good use of his enlarged privates. You were right, size does matter and your cell mate will prove it to you.

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    RRS, aka The Notorious BOB
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  2. /. censors/manipulates users comments to suit.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    corepirate nazi stock markup FraUD 'sponsors'.

    buy MiSuse of the infamouse mynuts won score, & va lairIE/robbIE's whoreabully infactdead PostBlock(tm) devise.

    &, as we all know, the wages of syntax FUDging, is debt.

    that's just how the felonious FUDgeCycle(tm) ?works? on many. first, you take some phonIE monIE. then...

    reminds US of the garmeNT disstricked, way back when.

    document contains no data? how could that be?

  3. 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.

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

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

  5. 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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    Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.