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Virginia Spammers Go To Jail, And Pay For It

An anonymous reader writes "A Virginia appeals court has upheld the first felony conviction under a state anti-spam law. In the process, the court also suggested that spam recipients might be able to sue spammers for money damages. According to the court, taxing a person's servers with unwanted e-mails is a form of trespass, little different than intruding on their land or making unwanted use of their private property. Perhaps because of this decision, spammers will soon find themselves on the receiving end of a million dollar class action suit."

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  1. Re:So if we have VOIP by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, annoying is stupid fuckin asians (Li Yu, Yung Bi Fong, etc) from Toronto, calling my VoIP number [also in Toronto] at 2am thinking it's a calling card #.

    Look you stupid "gooks", put the calling card # in your phone's memory. Then memory dial the damn thing. God damn...

    How you tell a FOB from a native? Natives will apologize for the wrong #, fobs just hang up on you....

    Tom

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