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$1 Billion Awarded in Lawsuit Against Spammers

Posted by michael on Sunday December 19, 2004 @01:06AM from the collecting-it-may-be-the-hard-part dept.

phoric writes "In what is believed the be the largest federal judgement in history against spammers, an ISP from eastern Iowa was awarded a $1 billion dollar judgement against three mass-mailing companies, which were said to be sending up to 10 million e-mail messages per day to the small internet provider."

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$1 billion--wowzers! by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · 2004-12-19 01:35 · Score: 5, Funny
Based on current advertised prices (rounded to nearest unit, exclusive of shipping and handling), that's:
- 6,250,391 ersatz Rolexes or
- 1,513,240,858 penis enlargement pills (??? miles of penis)
- or
- 3,787 mortgages for average homes (principal only) or
- an infinite number of NOT WORK SAFE cheating wife personals
- or
- 20,000,000 $50 free casino credits
- or
- 8,474,576 weeks of diet pills or
- 10,002,500 breasts enlarged
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I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.