Spammer Sued Under EU Law · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 29, 2005 @02:35AM from the good-day-for-clean-inboxes dept.

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."

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Re:anti-spam laws by Damer+Face · 2005-12-29 07:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No, it's one of many fantastic directives, as older sibling states.

But with things like the CAP, and corrupt fuckheads like Mandelson tugging Paul Allen's patent-spaffing holiday-cock, it's all too easy to forget the good they do.