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US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill
Folic_Acid writes "Rep. Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, has announced that the House and the Senate have reached a deal to both pass an anti-spam bill, the first ever federal anti-spam law in the United States. Specifically, the law contains: opt-out, authority for the FTC to set up a "Do-Not-SPAM" registry, criminal charges for fraudulent spam, including five years in prison, statutory damages of $2 million for violations, tripled to $6 million for intentional violations, unlimited damages for fraud and abuse." News.com has a copy of the bill and a story.
... unlimited damages for fraud and abuse.
...?!
What the -- unlimited damages
Holy crap, get ready for the undead legion of attorneys to rise from the grave!
-kgj
-kgj
that says INTENTIONAL not INTERNATIONAL
"including five years in [Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass] prison"
Bet someone's going to regret pushing all those penis patches (of grow 3 inches! fame).
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
...reminds me of an NDA from Sony I signed in a previous life. Buried deep in the middle of it was the phrase (from memory)
"Should PARTNER at any time divulge material covered by this agreement, then financial reparation may not be sufficient"...
(No, the NDA wasn't under the NDA - do you think I'd be telling you this, if it was ???)
I never did get clarification on what non-financial reparations would be demanded (first-born son?, ritual dismemberment ?)
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
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Attorneys at Law
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Never underestimate the inventivness of spammers and conartists... For example I could envision a legit spam such along the lines of:
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Dear Sir no doubt you have been receiving messages on increasing your penis size.
Let me take this time to inform you that my company Hammer Inc. has a US Trademark and copyright on the term "penis enlargement" and a patent on our exclusive fully herbal penis enlargement treatment plan. All those other companies are violating our establish copyrights and infringing on our patent. We have very strong IP rights in this area let me assure you.
So therefore let me offer our treatment at an incredible savings, just sign up now and we will give you 30% of list. Your lover will love you for it...
v/r McBribe CEO Hammer Inc.