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Spammer Sued Under EU Law
IngramJames writes "A British businessman has successfully sued a company who sent him a spam email. The case was settled out of court, so is not binding, but it's promising that the spammers had to cough up £300 for a single email! It's being reported (in a much more readable way) on The Register and the BBC." From the BBC article: "Three years ago the EU passed an anti-spam law, the directive on privacy and telecommunications, which gave individuals the right to fight the growing tide of unwanted e-mail by allowing them to claim damages."
If the default is to receive email - the user has to go out of their way to not receive email - exactly how is that opt-in?
Clue: If you have a mailing list of people who don't really want to be on it, it probably isn't an opt-in mailing list.