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Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement

Posted by kdawson on from the still-say-you're-a-spammer dept.

Panaqqa writes "In a not unexpected move, the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the $11 million awarded to e360 Insight and vacated a permanent injunction against Spamhaus requiring them to stop listing e360 Insight as a spammer. However, the ruling (PDF) does not set aside the default judgement, meaning that Spamhaus has still lost its opportunity to argue the case. The original judge could still impose a monetary judgement, after taking evidence from the spammer as to how much Spamhaus's block had cost them. This is unfortunate considering the legal leverage the recent ruling concerning spyware might have provided for Spamhaus."

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  1. So It's A Double Negative You Want, Eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In a not unexpected move... I don't think it isn't impossible to misunderestimate when a non-judge will unpredictably overrule a malignant case.
  2. Oh yeah? by toleraen · · Score: 4, Funny

    In a not unexpected move... Well, then I'm not unglad to hear about this. I still can't not unbelieve that their initial lawyer didn't know how to handle the very basics of the case. I wasn't not hoping to hear that this case would just get thrown out completely...how much can't the US government not do about this though? Inquiring minds don't not want to know...
    1. Re:Oh yeah? by GweeDo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Could you not un-use more double negatives in that one post?

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    2. Re:Oh yeah? by Futile+Rhetoric · · Score: 3, Funny

      Would the term doubleplusexpected be more to your liking?

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. So, the next logical step is by aim2future · · Score: 3, Funny

    that I get sued by the spammer if I reject their spam

  5. Would this be evil/wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okay, here's my idea to reduce spam:

    1) Send a massive spam campaign selling pharmaceuticals (viagra, weight loss, zoloft, hair regrowth, you name it)
    2) When the orders come in, send out authentic-looking prescription medication, but instead of medicine the pills are made of fast-acting poison.
    3) Thousands of people who are stupid enough to actually respond to spam, buy medication from spammers, and ingest said medication, are killed.
    4) Massive media coverage of the event makes spamming seem "dangerous" to the average person, hence reducing response rates to future spam.
    5) I make a tidy profit cleaning the gene pool.

    So, where's the downside?

  6. Wouldn't work. by jimicus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Germany, IIRC, still has food purity laws. You can't sell a product as "beer" unless its only ingredients are water, yeast, hops, malt and barley. Sausages must be 100% meat from a named part of the animal (and the animal should not have been named "Fido").

    Spam, I suspect, would fall under the category of "cheese".