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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?"
"You are hereby sentenced to 640 years in jail, with parole in nine months"
ah, the law is an ass..
At first I thought the article title was referring to Levin, the founder of IRC network Freenode. He spams a lot too - he's constantly making wallop messages begging for cash to support the network because his lazy ass can't get a job.
Ron dies in chapter 9 of book 7.
"640 years should be enough for anyone"
1. A good start.
2. Not nearly enough.
3. What's wrong with a firing squad?
4. You mean those Pen1s En1argement Pi11s don't work???
...Information just wants to be free. He didn't steal the information, he just copied it and shared it.
I wonder if there is a way to change email, so before any email is passed on, there is some visual confermation that has to be entered by the sender.
Then the League for the Blind presses charges, you go to jail for violating the Rehabilitation Act and/or the Americans with Disabilities Act (or foreign counterparts), and once you're in prison, you get sexually assaulted by a blind man.
If you can steal a thousand people's credit card numbers and then use that information to commit fraud, you have committed a thousand crimes. If you can cause $100 billion in damage, then guess what, you're liable for the $100 billion. Fraud and theft are crimes, and the more people you steal from (regardless of the means), the more you get punished.
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Even so, you have to admit its very lenient. Personally, I think 640k years would be more aappropriate. I am sure the majority of /.ers would support my call for it to be raised to 640 life sentences.
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Can we get his cellmate's names and addresses? I would like to send his cellmate's some penis enlargment pills and cialis softtabs.
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