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Porn Firms Spanked for Spam

Posted by timothy on from the will-spank-for-food dept.

Petersko writes "Five pornography companies have agreed to pay $1.16 million in fines for sending spam e-mail without a warning that it contains sexually explicit material, U.S. regulators said Wednesday."

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  1. Thank you sir, may I have another! by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Porn Firms Spanked for Spam"

    And they liked it.

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    Pretty Pictures!
    1. Re:Thank you sir, may I have another! by GypC · · Score: 3, Funny
      Not only did they like it, they filmed it.

      At $19.95 a month for a firmspankings.com membership it shouldn't take long to make their money back.

    2. Re:Thank you sir, may I have another! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      $19.95 a month for a firmspankings.com membership? What did you just get the low end package?

  2. Good thing it wasn't Utah or Minnesota by Seumas · · Score: 4, Funny

    These guys are getting off with a slap on the wrist considering the erection of new laws in certain states. They easily could have gotten a stiffer penalty and possibly done some hard time. Perhaps this will convince them to pull out of the spam game, though.

    1. Re:Good thing it wasn't Utah or Minnesota by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I agree, I believe the authorities weren't really hard on them. Perhaps it was an amateur judge? Let's touch wood and hope in future cases, they won't jerk about and let the spammers get off so lightly. It's a slippery slope, and the stream could become a river which could crash open the dyke. Anyway, spam already has penetrated Internet culture, and I'm quite anal about that. There's a bondage between Internet culture and pop culture, nowadays.

  3. "Microsoft Corp helped in the investigation..." by tyates · · Score: 2, Funny

    the FTC said. Jeez, do I really have to say it? Okay, fine, I will. "Thank you, Microsoft." You can go back to suing ex-employees now.

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  4. Re:I feel so left out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Too late, but you're just in time for the oral sex.

  5. what the hell... by Mad_Rain · · Score: 2, Funny

    How could the submitter send in this summary without the most important thing: Pictures! ;)

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  6. "Porn Firms Spanked for Spam" by iignotus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't even know where to start...