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AOL Files First Spim Lawsuit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the we're-not-gonna-take-it dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "CNet News is reporting that 4 major internet providers - AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, and Yahoo, have filed another bunch of lawsuits against spammers. What makes this round interesting is that AOL has filed the first ever lawsuit against against spam that targets Instant Messenger clients, or spim. So far spim has only affected relatively small numbers of users but the problem is growing, which is why AOL is targeting it now."

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  1. Half Life/Counterstrike by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    These people deserve to be sued, they force spam down your throat even if you have paid for the software. Also waste precious bandwith automatically downloading crap:

    "Steam, Valve's new content delivery program, is the only program you will need in order to play Counter-Strike and any Valve game available. Steam will automatically install and keep all of your favorite Valve games up to date. So what are you waiting for? Grab Steam and start playing Counter-Strike!"