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Microsoft Wins $3.95 Million from Spammer
LehiNephi writes "A Washington, D.C. judge fined Daniel Khoshnood, a major spammer, for pretending to be Microsoft in order to attract customers. Specifically, he registered windowsupdate.com (not to be confused with windowsupdate.microsoft.com), then sent out mass email encouraging users to download a toolbar from that website. Although the suit was not specifically about spamming, the mass emails (and subsequent complaints) were what caught Microsoft's attention. So far, Microsoft's campaign against spam has netted them $54 million from six judgments, one dismissal, four settlements, and two bankruptcies. The article doesn't mention whether the toolbar actually lived up to its claims of automatically applying security patches."
This is helping them more than most of their products. If they can earn $54million from spammers in this way then their offsetting a big part of all they have ever had to pay out in antitrust settlements.
Which is worse a big monopoly abusing corporation or a swarm of smaller more annoying spammers???
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LOL, you're homeschooled, huh? Do your parents teach creationism, too? ROR!
Microsoft battling spammers is like a battle between vultures and hyenas, i.e. two carrion feeders fighting over our carcass.
Lets hope it will help them crush that open source menace. Power to the Microsoft!
Microsoft's campaign against spam has netted them $54 million
Well, now we know why they're interested in going after spammers. To make some quick money - the reduction of spam that may result is just a small side benefit.
How did this spammer, or any other spammer, directly hurt Microsoft? IMHO, the only people these spammers hurt are the average consumers who have to put up with hundreds of junk mail messages in the inboxes every day. Microsoft shouldn't be the one making a fortune of lawsuits against spammers; the people who are directly effected by the spam should be.
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Let me see, parents who care enough about their kids to devote significant amounts of their time and a lot of effort into educating their children. And this is something to laugh about?
Yup. Because parents who really care will make sure their children are educated by professionals. And not just on the 1-2 subjects their parents MAYBE know a LITTLE about.
The home schooled children I have met are without exception well educated and interesting people.
The home schooled children I've met were all indoctrinated idiots who believed that god created the universe and were absolutely clueless in most scienfitic subjects.
Why don't you troll somewhere else, and pick on an adult as well?
Because Slashdot is more fun than "somewhere else" and while I'm older than 12, my 15 years don't exactly make me an adult myself. But don't worry, I regulary pick on adults here.
You know, Li-nux, like its name, is based on a lie. The lie is the idea that anything can be free. Our salvation came from Jesus sacrificing his life, and Linux comes from the perpetuation of programmer unemployment due to, and causing the production of, "free" software. Friends, if Linux is in your home, Jesus is not in your heart
Spammers = bad yada yada yada
But what about this:
to pay Microsoft for violating the company's trademark and [i]profiting from the use of a domain named controlled by Microsoft[/i]
Eh? Controlled by Microsoft? How?
And this:
Windowsupdate.com, a domain name that Mr. Khoshnood had registered in violation of Microsoft's trademark rights.
Same old *Windows* = (tm) Bill story again. So I guess WindowsCleaners is next? (That domain is still available so I'm not spamming).
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Well hell.. if my subnet is going to be banned, I may as well troll to deserve it...
Oh my. Such a powerful intellect I'm dealing with here. I'd better just accede the flamewar right now because I don't now how I could possibly retort in the face of that biting "gay nigger porn" comment.... oh wait, yes I do:
You should know I'm not watching it because I don't enjoy watching your gay nigger daddy rape goats while he fingers your postule-encrusted asshole.
You're right, I should be doing one of those exciting Saturday morning activities like everyone else.
Hmmm. Good point. I've only seen one kid go by on a bike, a pack of three walk by talking, and a pair come back the other way laughing about something since I got up two hours ago. However, since you're completely socially inept, I guess we can rule out the last two options (unless recieving a savage beating counts as a social activity for the victim, in which case you're probably one of the most popular guys at your little boys' academy). I suppose the fact that you're a three hundred pound wanker who can't even see his balls without setting his flabby gut on a towel rack in front of a mirror rules out biking. Hmmm. Good point. You are too pathetic to participate in any Saturday morning activities...
I guess that would be true if you replaced "jobs" with "eczema", "schooling" with "beatings" and "country" with "my parent's basement".
Oh my. Wounding comeback. Please. No. Don't unleash that powerful wit again by spouting your droll, tired, bland insults. I mean, obviously, nobody has ever thought to use THOSE insults before. You're so utterly creative and unique. Did you learn that in the public school that I'M currently earning taxable income to pay for so that you can waste your entire, lifeless Saturday posting to Slashdot insulting people? You're a perfect example of why I support abortions. In fact, if I have one regret in life, it's that your parents didn't tie a bag around your head and leave you in the dumpster behind the trailer park after your mom squatted in the mud to squeeze your little trollish ass out.
Game. Set. Match. Bitch. Now if you'll excuse me, unlike you, I have better things to do with the rest of my day.
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