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Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the a-waffling-we-will-go dept.

arbitraryaardvark writes "Mega-spammer Jeremy Jaynes was convicted in Virginia of spamming in '05, sentenced to 9 years, and lost his appeal, 4-3, at the Virgina Supreme Court. But the court has just ordered a new hearing on whether the anti-spam statute is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Slashdot previously covered the appeal and the conviction."

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  1. Doesn't matter if it's ads. by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't a first amendment issue, it's a property rights issue. The spammer's got a right to say whatever he wants to say, but that right doesn't include a right to use other people's property to do so.

    Basically, he got sent up the river for a hell of a lot of instances of extremely petty theft, which is as it should be. Let the fucker rot.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."