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Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-say-it's-spam-and-i-say-the-hell-with-it dept.

6031769 writes, "As reported on CNet, Spamhaus is choosing to ignore a judgement of $11.7M against them in an uncontested trial in an Illinois court. According to Spamhaus, the judgement has no impact on them, since they are a British organization." From the Spamhaus reply to the judgment: "Default judgments obtained in US county, state or federal courts have no validity in the UK and can not be enforced under the British legal system... As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organization to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to cease sending spam in the first place."

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  1. All spammers must die! by fe105 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is probably best to kill all spammers! I have been fighting spam for many years now. Why do they get to cause other people so much grieve and work?

    Killing people in general is not right, but if you do it in a humane way, like shoot them through the head with a .454 casul?

    It can't be hard to find volunteers for doing this. Shooting casul is a blast! ;)

    p.s. don't actually do this..

  2. Missed opportunity by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Funny
    I dont know why Spamhaus missed this great business opportunity.

    It shoud send out the following email to everyone.

    Dear Email Recepient,

    My name is Sir Arthur Cunnigham, Bar-at-Law, Queen's Bench, City of London, the United Kingdom. The Illinois Supreme court, Chicago Illinois, USA has awarded a judgement against me for the sum of 11 million dollars. If you have received any unsolicited email from me, I will have to pay you, 535$ as your share of the settlement. Even if you have not received any mail from me before, this email itself will entitle you a share towards the settlement.

    So please send me your name, your address, your social security number, your bank account number, the routing number of your bank so that I can remit the said sum without undue delay. In addition to verify your identity, please let me have a valid credit card number, its expiration date and the card verification number. Please allow six weeks for me to raid^H^H^H^H credit your account with the money I owe you.

    Have a nice day. Thank you

    --
    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  3. I occasionally buy products from spammers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    just to piss the elitist spam haters off. a side benefit is that I am now an incredible lover with a huge penis and I get great deals on real estate loans.

  4. Blues Brothers? by Stavr0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ELWOOD
    "Illinois spammers."

    JAKE
    "I hate Illinois spammers"

  5. Re:I'll keep this in mind by ledow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Troll and obviously supposed to be sarcasm.

    But maybe the next time someone in a foreign country tries to sue you for something that's a) not illegal in your country (in fact, SPAMMING is illegal in the UK, so they are not only obeying UK law but preventing the people in question from violating UK law themselves) b) nothing to do with you and c) without consulting you, serving you correct legal papers (reason enough to ignore any legal document) or bothering to contact any form of legal contact in your country, then maybe you can use your powers of sarcasm to get you out.

    Seriously, this case is a joke... serving legal papers by EMAIL? WTF? Of course, email is a guaranteed delivery system that ensures that person on the other end recieves it, is the correct person and cannot deny ever having recieved it (that's how to do real sarcasm, by the way)