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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."
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Every auction I've won on Evilbay in the past 6 months has turned out to be a fraud. Evilbay would appear to be further tempting fate by promoting itself to the mentally challenged members of society. Evilbay has long partnered with well known IT vendor SUN Microsystems and now their UK division has partnered for a charity auction with low-brow British tabloid "The Sun". Britain's most popular tabloid is a condescending right-wing pictorial rag, gazed at by people of disturbingly low intelligence. There was also an XMAS TV spot which, being devoid of content, also shamelessly targetted potential fraudsters and victims.
Evilbay deserving winner of the 2005 Icarus award.
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.