FTC Threatens Spyware Distributors With Prison

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @07:36PM from the truth-to-the-situation dept.

Federal regulator Mark Pryor, in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, has stated that spyware distributors should face harsher penalties than fees. His solution: imprisonment. "Federal Trade Commissioner William Kovacic said most wrongdoers in the spyware arena 'can only be described as vicious organized criminals. Many of most serious wrongdoers we observed in this area, I believe, are only going to be deterred if their freedom is withdrawn,' so it's important for the FTC to collaborate on its cases with criminal law enforcement authorities, Kovacic said."

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Troops dying every damn day and ur an ahole by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-10 21:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Troops dying every damn day and all you care about is some morning-show jock that makes some off-the-wall comment about some never-heard-of womans b-ball college team? You got a weird sense of priority. Who the hell cares !?