"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."

Comments

Re:5 Minutes

[bwalling]

Maximum of five minutes in prison for each of the people he spammed. Seems a little light.

Interesting that all of the people on Slashdot rail against jail time for intellectual property violations, but think that the spammer's sentence was too light. Isn't the underlying argument the same - there really isn't a victim as it's all just bits. The problem is that with spam, the Slahdotters are the victims, and so now they want punishment and the spammers are sitting around saying "what's the big deal? it's just a few bits".

Re:Awesome, but will do little to curb spam

[flyingfsck]

"90 billion" If you counted them, then maybe you should stop your obsession and get a life... ;)