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Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions

Posted by samzenpus on from the crime-is-futile dept.

daria42 writes "It looks as if the $7 million Microsoft won from spam king Scott Richter won't go into a Swiss bank account and never be seen again after all. The company plans to dedicate a cool $5 mil to helping law enforcement agencies address computer-related crimes. Another $1 million will go to New York State to "expand computer-related skills training for youths and adults", with the rest being flagged to pay Microsoft's legal costs."

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  1. Dupe of the week by smooth+wombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yup, you're not losing your mind. You did see this article previously.

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    1. Re:Dupe of the week by daniil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sir, I dub thee 'The Boy that Cried "Dupe!"

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    2. Re:Dupe of the week by smooth+wombat · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      I'm replying to my own posting (yeah, bad form be damned) so that I can quote the following from the original article:

      Smith said that Microsoft will reinvest all of the money, after legal expenses, including $5 million that will go to increase Internet enforcement efforts and expand technical and investigative support to help law enforcers to address computer-related crimes.

      So I ask the question: how is this a follow-up to the previous article when in fact the linked article is a day behind the original article and only restates things?

      Not to mention that the article I had submitted had all of the information and more than the original article but was rejected.

      So yes, it is a dupe.

      Also, how can the first post about a submitted story be Redundant? Oh right, it's Thursday. That means an extra dose of crack to carry you over til Friday.

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    3. Re:Dupe of the week by daniil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You do realize that to get all this information, one would have had to read all of the original article? Tut, tut. Yeah, the article might be kind of dupish, but in my opinion, it's justified this time (even though the article is quite boring).

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  2. Spam Spam Spam, on Spam by azrane2005 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A monopoly from spam money eh? I see a Monty Python skit in the making.

  3. Somehow this will be "bad" by airjrdn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And yet somehow, the /. community will find something wrong with what Microsoft is giving away.

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  4. di34 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AN ARDUOUS OS. Now BSDI is

  5. Re:Please.... by Himring · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I protest my "redundant" score, cuz at the time I started the post no one had said it yet. I mean, this is like quantum physics and stuff. Hey! What I just said is at least interesting....

    Someone mod up previous poster....

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  6. moderator..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually I have to agree with this guy. His comment wasn't really redundant and shouldn't be modded so. Any moderator care to sort this out?

  7. Great. by base3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Five million to harass small-time copyright infringers and the people who would otherwise be our saviors from creeping DRM. Wonderful.

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  8. 0.01% by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And Microsoft will use the remaining $2M to live on while they take off the month of September 2005 to "drop everything and focus exclusively on fixing security holes in all Microsoft products".

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