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Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam
teun writes "This morning the Dutch Telecom Authority, responsible for enforcing the anti-spam law in
the Netherlands, announced their first two fines for Dutch spammers: 25,000 and 42,500 euros. These fines are based on the anti-spam law that became
effective in May this year. Spamvrij.nl is very pleased with these results." gollum123 writes "According to AOL, its subscribers are getting less spam this year. There has been a reduction in both the number of daily email messages to AOL (from 2.1 to 1.6 billion) and in the number of customer complaints about spam." And finally, Saeed al-Sahaf writes "We hear so much about China being the source of spam. But a new study shows China and South Korea as distant second to the United States as the source of spam. Sophos, a leading anti-virus maker has released some findings, which claim that the good old US accounts for almost 42% of spam mails sent out this year, and they chalk it up to lack of security on most desktop computers."
How about warmongering and 25% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions (from 5% of the world's population) for a start dipstick? And you smell bad, too.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to blacklist this new country full of lawless spammers and ISP's that don't care...just like I did with China and Mexico!!1
You're an idiot.
Copyright infringement shouldn't be a crime in my opinion - the reason I would scream bloody murder when the GPL on some software I've written would be infringed is because if I were to infringe the copyright of the gpl-infringer (typically an unscrupulous corporation), they'd try to sue me into bankruptcy.
I would honestly have no grief with someone who didn't obey the GPL, but could never enforce copyrights (== censoright) on others.
Remember the FSF party line "Without copyright, the GPL would be unenforceable - It would also be unnecessary".
They do need to define spam.
Sophos included worms and trojans in their top 12 list, which I consider a seperate problem to spam.
Many consider any unsolicited and unwanted email spam, because it makes the numbers look much bigger. But think about it, if my uncle sends me an email, I never solicited it, and I don't really want to talk to him, so is it spam? No. What about all those "crazy hilarious jokes" people keep forwarding me? I dont want that shit, is it spam? No.
That's how activist groups work these days. IMO they belittle the problem while they try to blow it out of proportion.
As another example, back when I was in school, a bunch of feminist grad students did a survey about "rape and sexual abuse" on campus. They concluded that 2 out of 3 girls were raped while attending the school. Since the girls outnumbered boys 2-1, it meant that every male must be raping one or two girls a year. What the fuck was wrong with that? I knew I'd never raped anyone, and as far as I knew none of my male friends had, and no girl I knew was ever raped. In fact, in my 4 years there, I only heard of one actual case of rape (which is still one too many).
I looked at the survey they sent out. It didn't say anything about rape. It had a question phrased like "did you ever have sex when you didnt want to?". There was my answer. Anyone who answered yes was ticked up in the "raped" column.
Unwanted sex isn't rape. If you throw one out on your anniversary, even though you dont feel like it, it isn't rape, and to try and twist the facts to include it as "rape", belittles and insults all the real victims. If your a girl and screw some guy because you think it'll make him like you, you're a slut - not a rape victim.
Activists are full of shit, beware anything you hear from someone with an agenda.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!