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First CAN-SPAM Lawsuit Filed in California

Posted by timothy on from the this-old-big-house dept.

rocketjam writes "Foster City, California-based ISP Hypertouch, Inc. has filed the first lawsuit alleging violations of the new Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. The lawsuit was filed against BobVila.com and the spammer they hired, Bluestream Media, for sending Hypertouch customers unwanted, unsolicited email advertisements for Vila's "Home Again Newsletter." The suit alleges the defendents sent spam email ads with fraudulent headers and no physical address. It also alleges the emails were sent to randomly generated and harvested addresses as well as addresses that had replied to opt-out links in other spams. Hypertouch's attorney, John L. Fallat, said the CAN-SPAM Act offers little protection to the public, but they would use the few protections it offers to punish spammers." Reader Clemence links to Wired's coverage of the suit.

5 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Could we have interesting information we didn't read somewhere else?

  2. fraudulent headers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How can that be? Any sequence of ASCII characters is allowed in the headers and in the body of an e-mail. What the e-mails didn't have is a digital signature, but it's easy to delete e-mails that lack digital signatures on the client side. So what is the problem again?

  3. Re:Say it ain't so! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not Norm Abrams, but I want you to have a longer penis.

  4. USA law = bad law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    need I say more.

  5. Re:Windows: the (un)suspecting victim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think you're an idiot. I wonder if that is punishable...