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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. Merely a notch in the armor of Spam. by deemaunik · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, 1.16 Million in damages. Meanwhile, notwithstanding that loss, they probably made ten to fifty times that in the carpet bombing. 1.16 Million is hardly a huge goal when it comes to lawsuits in the states. =/ Unfortunately.