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Judge Rules In Favor Of Spamhaus
Waylon writes "U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus Project. e360 Insight responded on its homepage, saying the judge's ruling was 'a devastating loss of personal freedom for all U.S. citizens'. As opposed to shutting down a voluntary service which tries to mitigate the millions of unsolicited emails that e360 Insight pumps out every single day." From the article: "In his order, Judge Kocoras wrote that the relief e360insight sought is 'too broad to be warranted in this case' and that suspending the domain name would 'cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus, not just those that are in contravention' of the default judgment. He also called e360insight's motion one that 'does not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct.'"
That address needs to find its way into a couple posts in USENET.
A-1, 10 star, "+100 well-duh" answer of the century. The only tragedy in your post is that Slashdot doesn't offer any mod rating higher than +5.
the sarcasm aside, you *do* realise a mailserver is hardly comparable to the tubes the data on the internet moves through? :p (it having to actually process all the headers and whatnot, putting them into the correct mailboxes? there is a reason troubles arise when viruses that abuse email contactlists appear, and it isn't because of the raw data being sent..
Joking aside, does it disturb anyone else that 16-17 year olds are being referred to as children and Mark Foley being called a pedophile? I dated a 16 year old when I was 20, and I'd be pretty pissed if anyone ever called me a pedophile (arguably, she was more mature than I was.) I think there's a big fat gray area between right and wrong here. Anyone who thinks that messing around with a 17 year old is the same as messing around with a 7 year old needs to have their head examined.
I'm not excusing anything the guy did, but by analogy if someone gets mugged, I don't think it's appropriate or fair to call the suspect a murderer or rapist.