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Spamford Wallace Draws A Restraining Order

Posted by timothy on from the with-great-restraint dept.

Steve Rock writes "According to an article in the Associated Press, a temporary restraining order has been issued by a judge against Stanford Wallace and his companies. The case marks the first anti-spyware action taken by the Federal Trade Commission, and while there is some argument about permitting unsolicited commercial e-mail because of free speech it appears a tougher approach will be taken with alleged spyware distribution."

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  1. Re:fishing for flames by xgamer04 · · Score: 0, Troll

    a) People are educated, and are shown the errors of their actions, IE: if they respond to spam, beat them to a pulp

    I think it's funny that you could've stopped at:

    a) People are educated, and are shown the errors of their actions, IE

    and it would basically be half the problem right there. ;)

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