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Spammer Bankrupted by Anti-Spammer Suits
www.sorehands.com writes "The well known spammer Scott ("Snotty Scotty") Richter has filed for bankruptcy protection. In a Denver Post article Richter claims to have less than $10 million in assets but more than $50 million in debts including the $49 million that Microsoft is seeking. Microsoft is not the only lawsuit that Richter is defending, as a law suit filed by anti-spammer Dan Balsam and being handled by anti-spam attorney Timothy Walton is still pending. Hopefully, Microsoft will have the automatic stay from the bankruptcy court dissolved so that they can stop Richter from spamming and gather more evidence."
Would someone remind me why it should be illegal to send unsolicited email?
I know why it should be illegal to setup a server in Russia to send 500 emails to the same person every day, but I don't see that as unsolicited email, but maybe a end-user denial-of-service attack.
Or a better question is, what is unsolicited email, and when does it become the stuff we hate, SPAM.
Microsoft officials called the filing a victory. "Microsoft and the state of New York said we would drive him into bankruptcy, and together we have," said Aaron Kornblum, Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement attorney.
This is not justice. This is a powerful company able to destroy another one even before that other one has been proven guilty of anything.
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Go Debian!
Do not envy the wicked -- Proverbs
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Yeah - only because Linux and Macs aren't pervasive enough to warrant the virus/trojan writers to focus their time on them. If Linux and Macs ever gain a dominant foothold, that will change - and you all know it.