Spammer Scott Levine Convicted

bani writes "Spammer Scott Levine was convicted of massive data theft from Acxiom Corporation. Prosecutors say his company, the now-defunct Snipermail.com, stole 1.6 billion customer records from Acxiom and sold the data. He faces a maximum of 640 years in prison under the law, though he will likely be sentenced to far less. One spammer down, several million to go?"

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You people are hypocrites.

[DroopyStonx]

This is vigilanteism, which most of you supposedly claim to be against.

Yeah, fine and punish a spammer, great, but sorry, 640 years is OVERKILL and you know it.

Hell, ANY jail time for spamming is extreme. The purpose of jail is to isolate those who are a THREAT to society. Someone sending massive amounts of email to people is not a threat to society no matter how you look at it.

We often overlook and take for granted what the purpose of prison is, and it certainly isn't a place to send a fuckin SPAMMER, no matter how much it annoys YOU.

When you do your janky math and figure "oh it takes 5 seconds to delete an email, multiply that by a billion and blah blah you lose millions across the country!!", it makes it look worse than it really is.

I'm sure SOME money is lost.. so do the logical thing - fine him a good portion (75%+) of his assets.

I hate spam as much as the next person, but this mob mentality is sickening.