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Spammers Fined A$5.5 million

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-canned-pork dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Is it enough? by belligerent0001 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Two wrongs don't make a right..... but two rights do make a left...... think about it

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  2. Re:Is it enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Where I live only three rights do make a left.

  3. Re:Is it enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Two wrongs don't make a right..... but two rights do make a left...... think about it

    At least if you're working in the usual 90 degree turns, two rights make a U-turn, and you have to do three rights to make a left.

  4. Re:Is it enough? by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You only do jail time for hosting BitTorrent sites

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  5. Re:Is it enough? by belligerent0001 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    oops!

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    "...a civilian some of the time, a soldier part of the time and a patriot all of the time." -Brig. Gen. James Drain