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Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail

Posted by Zonk on from the should-have-been-a-year-for-each-email dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, NC now has the dubious honor of being the first spammer sentenced to jail for the felony of spamming. Virginia judge Thomas Horne sentenced Jaynes to 9 years in prison based on a jury recommendation after he was convicted of sending out 10 million e-mails a day. Jaynes, who sent out much of his spam using the name "Gaven Stubberfield", has held a position on the SpamHaus Registry of Known Spam Operations for a long time. Unfortunately the sentence has been postponed while the case is being appealed." Commentary on the sentence available at Forbes as well.

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  1. Re:What makes this guy different? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    I admit 9 years is a LONG time, but he KNEW what he was doing was very, very wrong.
    pumping out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need
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    Prosecutors say he grossed up to $750,000 per month.
    This guy is a hard up criminal, and now he going to do time like one.
  2. Re:Ummm.... by FreshFunk510 · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is just the perspective from the average Joe consumer who uses hotmail or yahoo mail.

    Think about this from the perspective of corporate companies. Everyday real money (significant amounts) are being spent to combat spam. Real resources must be hired, time is spent and hardware is acquired in order to accomodate spam. This translates into a real expenditure for enterprise-leve companies.

    I'm not saying it's completely justified but I don't think you have the full picture.

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  3. Re:good move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    uh, no you don't.

    Learn the law and then come back. No one gets nine years for premeditated (1st degree) murder .

  4. The private prison industry must love this by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Informative

    Putting people in prison for trivial offenses(that is what this is. Quit your whining) is definitely good for this business. Who says crime doesn't pay?

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  5. Hahahaha Prison Rape is so teh funnay! by EmCeeHawking · · Score: 0, Informative

    Fact: Most rape occurs to men( in prison ).
    Fact: You are far more likely to be infected with HIV via rape if you are a man.
    Fact: Hundreds of men in the US alone, by means of in-prison HIV transmission, have been handed the death sentence for crimes that originally warranted a few years.
    Fact: When a woman is raped, the general reaction is one of disgust, anger, contempt.

    Why the FUCK is rape perpetuated against men so funny?

  6. Male Rape by meehawl · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing like the mention of "prison" to help a lot of jokers make light of the deployment of State-institutionalized rape as a coercive technology.

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  7. Re:good move by BasilBrush · · Score: 2, Informative
    I haven't got a problem. You have a problem. Your problem is not understanding the law. Your problem is reacting emotionally instead of rationally. If a person has a car crash and someone is non-deliberately killed during that accident, then no that is not murder. That is an accident. If the chances of having an accident are greatly increased through drink or drugs, then that is negligent. It is manslaughter. But it is not murder. You are missing the important element of the crime of murder - the intent do do harm.

    Your intention to bring our nearest and dearest into a hypothetical is just a symptom of you acting emotionally rather than rationally. That's no way to discuss legal issues.