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Fighting Spam Through Regulation and Economics
Bryan29 writes ""Next door to our offices was a spam operation... One day they weren't there anymore". Apparently in the past several months some black hat SEO companies (comment spammers) closed shop. Mr. Evron explores using a couple of case studies how spam was directly impacted by the UIGEA online Casinos law, disallowing payment processing, and how the subprime mortgage collapse made many former clients of spammers "move on". The article draws its conclusions from an economic standpoint "Perhaps the next step policy makers should take is to work to change this economy, possibly by legalizing and regulating ... More to the point, they can make the act of processing funds for this type of operation illegal.""
What about these unregulated Hedge Funds Too many people insist that they be given a free ride because they cater to intellect investors. The subprime mortgage basically proved that more than a few of these businesses are little better than pyramid schemes( example: bundling of crappy mortgages and selling them as AAA bonds).
When they address something that actually cost the US a couple of TRILLION dollars, then lets worry about Spammers.