"Spam King" Pleads Guilty in U.S. Federal Court

Monty writes "It looks like 'Spam King' Adam Vitale has finally plead guilty to violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in federal court in New York City. 'The indictment said that in less than a week in August 2005, Vitale and Moeller sent e-mails on behalf of the informant to more than 1,277,000 addresses of subscribers at AOL, the online division of Time Warner Inc. Vitale will be sentenced on September 13 when he faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison. Moeller, who lives in New Jersey, faces the same charge.' We discussed Vitale's arrest back in February."

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Re:believe it when I see it

[hobo sapiens]

Then maybe the right punishment is that he has to pay back the money he "earned" or go broke, and of course he'll go broke. Prisons are full enough, and there are much worse people to send there. Make him go broke and then do some community service. Seems like sending him to jail is a bit draconian.

Plus, I can think of a few things he could do for community service:
1) since people once referred to the net as the info superhighway, make him the highway dept's official roadkill scraper for a few years
2) make him clean out some tubes...that's right, get them sewers real clean, boy!
3) let him go work at a nursing home where they give the old men free v!agr4 -- while dressed up as the girl from St Pauli Girl beer bottles. Ouch!
4) he has to clean all the restrooms in NYC's entire subway system.

Cruel? Unusual? Yes! Fitting? Yes!