Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine

Spad writes "It's not a typo, The Inquirer (amongst others) is reporting that an Iowa-based ISP has been awarded $11.2 billion in a case against spammer James McCalla, who was found guilty of sending over 280 million illegal spam emails. Under state law, the ISP was entitled to $10 per illegal e-mail sent. According to the Quad-City Times, McCalla has also been banned from using a computer for 3 years. From the article: "CIS acknowledged that it is unlikely to see any of the judgment money but said that it was time that spammers learnt that their actions would result in an economic death penalty"."

Comments

Send him to "pound me in the ass federal prison"

[Zendar]

I'd rather see thes guys do some jail time.

Re:Very rough, hopeful translation

[poopdeville]

Yeah, this guy deserves to have his home taken by the IRS and thrown in jail for the tiny inconvenience he caused you. Now that's justice!

Re:Banned From Using a Computer

[Pig Hogger]

From what I understand from the argument, and from what I have read (granted, my understanding and knowledge comes only from what I have read on the internet), what the "Right to Travel" is about is that drivers licenses are an illegal restriction on the Constitutional "Right to Travel", which has no limits on the means of conveyance.

By the size of your rant, you're obviously one of those anglo-saxon property rights zealot. Your rant also is totally off-the-mark, so I will not even bother busting neurons reading it.

I will however bust all your arguments with the following:

so, since there is "no limits on the means of conveyance", it's perfectly okay to travel by using a mechanical copy of Godzilla which merrily goes about squashing roads, cars, electric/telephone wires and buildings.

The average reader will then have no problem getting the futility of your argument.