Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions

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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Re:Dupe of the week

[smooth wombat]

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.