Spammers Fined A$5.5 million

Mick Bailey writes "A Perth company and it's director have been issued a A$5.5 million (approx. US$4 million) fine for breaching anti-spam laws. Australian IT watchers may be familiar with the director, Robert Mansfield — he's been personally fined A$1 million for the offenses. The Company, Clarity1, sent 280 million unsolicited emails of which 74 million hit mailboxes between 4/2004 and 4/2006."

Comments

Is it enough?

[jmagar.com]

I wonder if he's made enough money from the spam to cover this fine. It could turn out that this just becomes the cost of doing business...

I prefer to see jail time for these guys.

Re:Australian spammers

[aussersterne]

Put them to work in a special prison computer room where they have to filter SPAM out of government email boxes by hand, one click at a time, 10 hours/day. Every time they let a SPAM message through or accidentally can a good message, they get 24 hours in solitary confinement without food. No, make that they get 24 hours in solitary confinement and have to eat nothing but hunks of SPAM for the rest of the week.

They should receive 1 year of time in prison doing this for every 1 year they were SPAMming on the outside.

Impact on business is less than torrent hosting?

[wonkknows]

So in other slashdot news people get jail time for hosting torrents which impact a limited number of people/business.

Yet, only fines for impacting a HUGE number of people/business??