First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming

prostoalex writes "U.S. federal authorities have conducted the first arrest for spimming. Eighteen-year-old Anthony Greco was arrested for sending spam to instant messenger users of MySpace.com." From the article: "Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn't sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service."

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Arrested for spimming or extortion?

[Junior J. Junior III]

"Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn't sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service."

So, the spimmer isn't really under arrest for spimming, but for extortion. Right?

Gah. "Spimming"?

[American AC in Paris]

...do we really need to go mashing old new words into new new words for every little 'Net-related derivation out there?

It's stupidiotic, and it's getting irritannoying.

He wasn't arrested for Spimming...

[ackthpt]

He was arrested for extortion.

Dangerous MIPS code?

[Palshife]

Wait, simulating MIPS assembly code is ILLEGAL?

Re:You mean to tell me

[Hellasboy]

"A Moose wants my social security number? Sounds fair to me." -Simpsons 2005.02.20 (finally a good one)

Best part:

[Saint Aardvark]

He was arrested upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport last Wednesday....Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn't sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service. Greco believed he was flying to Los Angeles to cement that agreement with MySpace President Tom Anderson.

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tanderson says: Okay. But you have to show up to sign an agreement.
tanderson says: LOL
h5<>0r says: 5W33+!1!!1 j00 r0X0R!
h5<>0r says: w51+! y u l5ff1Ng @ me?
tanderson says: What?
tanderson says: Sorry, just remembering a Seinfeld episode I saw last night
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tanderson says: Yeah, that's great
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tanderson says: Sucker
h5<>0r says: wa+?????????
tanderson says: Sorry
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Re:I'm not normally a spelling Nazi...

[NarrMaster]

but come on now, how frelling hard is it to spell "spamming"?

How fucking hard is it to spell "fucking"?

Re:is spam a USA society problem ?

[deft]

Can someone please put the parent on the short list for torture; I'm too busy eating apple pie, bombing brown people, and devolving society right now.

Thanks a bunch.

Re:Gah. "Spimming"?

[nacturation]

Spam over IRC - Spirm.

Refrence

[TiggertheMad]

Yeah, you'd have to be stupid to be a maroon. Either that or mix red and purple and splash it on him.

Your quip was quite funny, but I think it might have been a cultural refrence, and not a typo. In old Warner-brothers cartoons, Bugs Bunny would say things like, 'What a iggit, what a maroon!' to insult people. I think the joke was that he didn't say 'idiot' and 'moron', but 'iggit' and 'maroon', words that only an iggit maroon would mispronounce. Either that, or I'm an iggit maroon who is missing the real joke. I'd lay odds at fifty-fifty either way.

(Dry, boring joke analysis over, you can wake up now.)