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Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice
An anonymous reader writes "It didn't seem to me like any single company had the stomach to keep after the scum that are ruining the Net for the rest of us. Unless that company is Microsoft. Since the beginning of 2003, Microsoft has filed 96 lawsuits against spammers, and 119 lawsuits against phishers. By any measure, 215 lawsuits constitutes a legal juggernaut. "
...probably just got tired of getting spam and 419ers in his Hotmail inbox / Outlook Express. So instead of developing better filters, he decided to take them out.
Someone might as well invite BillG to Gmail already.
If there's one place Microsoft should feel right at home, it's in court. . .
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
But.... what will we talk about then?? Star Wars isn't out yet, and Linus can't release a new kernel every few hours. We NEED MS bashing to keep our over-active/over-worked minds finely-tuned.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Funny you say that, I've started responding to so-called spam recently.
I now have a 14" long penis, a £500,000 mortgage (on income of a twentieth of that!), more software than I know what to do with and some very nice pictures of Brintey Spears (well, that's who they said she was, but I'm sure she doesn't spell her name like that...).
I get medicines at exceptionally low prices (though I'm a bit concerned about the side effects I've been having from that the last batch of aspirin), and my printer is unlikely to run out of ink until 2009. Provided it doesn't explode like my last one did when I put those special chinese cartridges in. Damn cheap printers.
Of course, none of this comes cheap. But when a nice man in Nigeria has promised you 25% of $20,000,000, you can afford to splash out now and then...
"Linus can't release a new kernel every few hours"
Sounds like a wager to me.
-Linus.
By any measure, 215 lawsuits constitutes a legal juggernaut.
I guess you've never heard of a little group known as the RIAA.
legal action is the only real course of action to stop these guys
I don't know, attacking them with pointy sticks seems reasonable to me, and much less expensive and time consuming than legal efforts.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Back in 2002 I decided to change my email address to [insert real username]@microsoft.com and then post to usenet so that Microsoft employees got spammed. Microsoft gets annoyed and spammers get sued - It's a win-win situation.
Just want to hear Gates standing over some spammer and ask "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya spammer?"
"You don't assign him to spammer cases, You just turn him loose." "William Henry Gates the Third. He doesn't break spammer cases. He smashes them."
"I know what you're thinking. Did he assign six lawyers or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is Microsoft's legal department, the most powerful legal entity in the world, and would sue your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya spammer?"