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AOL to Give Away Spammer's Porsche
introverted writes "CNN is reporting that AOL is giving away a spammer's Porsche. As part of a settlement with a spammer, AOL took the spammer's Porsche Boxster S, and they're running a sweepstakes (already ended) to give the car away."
Is this three or four weeks old now?
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
This was in the mainstream media, even. And Slashdot.
More info is available here.
--Kirk
It's probably got spammer cooties.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Does it come with a CD Multiplayer? And any guesses what they'll fill it with?
mark my words
Slashdotters are laughing now, but just wait until the RIAA/MPAA take a cue from AOL and start liquidating pirates assets...
I'd continue the cutting & pasting of +5 mods, but I'm far too lazy. Thanks Claws Of Doom and WormholeFiend for me stealing the first +5 comments.
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I would have liked to give the man a free castration.
I am not a doctor, so I would probably botch it badly.
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AOL are getting their Porsche $ back 100 times over with all this free publicity, perhaps spam is a good thing they are thinking ?
Maybe he got a better deal by giving away his car rather than an equivalent amount in money - but how'd they reach the settlement amount? Had the spammer's actions caused enough damage to AOL to justify the $1million settlement claim? My guess would be that the spammer's actions cost them bandwidth and diskspace - but are they justified in charging him the amount just because their users didn't delete the junk soon enough or their filters are lame?
Not I'm justifying spam or spammers...but if they reach an out of court settlement for a million dollars, on the grounds that they won't pursue a lawsuit against him - it sounds an awful lot like extortion to me. I would like to see the damages of $1million justified in public - otherwise every crook company (we have plenty of them - RIAA/SCO/etc) could go around threatening people with lawsuits (which the individuals couldn't afford) and demand out-of-court settlements and the people being sued would have no choice but to pay up unless they had resources to pursue their case in court.
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Where it is "funny" to talk about shooting a spammer in the face, whereas you get Karma Kastrated for suggesting the same thing for a evil shitbag like Ralph Nader.
Settle mao che minh, people might think you have a weak member and are trying to compensate.
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"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
Wouldn't it be ironic if the spammer was the one sending those "GET OUT OF DEBT NOW!" messages.
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A doctor would know not to use a Magnum to perform the castration.
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You're not a doctor, so
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
maybe I can take one of their cars!
::looks out window and sees their 1975 Pinto Wagon ::
Nevermind...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
The guy's life reads like a spam-filled success story. If I post this article at work, we'll lose 10 people tomorrow.
"Hi everybody, I'm Robin Leach, and I'm here today looking at the gorgeous 20 million dollar home of [insert spammers name here]!! It's a fabulous castle bought with all that email money, because spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!! Of course, he had the cheapest mortgage on the planet! Boy, he's more loaded than half of Hollywood, and it's like he didn't even work for it! With spam, he seems to MAKE MONEY OVERNIGHT!!! While you stupid peasants are out there slaving away, he's clicking "Send Now" and watching his fabulous dragon's mound of gold coins pile ever higher! He's so smart, he doesn't even need a spellchecker! He has a stable of Porsches and a stable of lovely ladies! And that huge penis of his is a favorite around town! He has no problems meeting ladies because Spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!" He's living the American Dream, and I'm just poor fat old Robin Leach!!!
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that a link to the dupe got marked redundant?
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aaah, one million valid email addresses for phase two! WARRRAARARRAGAAARRAAGG!!
1. Announce sweepstakes for spammer's porsche
2. Get people to sign up; collect email addresses
3. Sell email addresses
4. Profit!