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MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace
smooth wombat writes "Apparently some people just don't take the hint. The latest story in the Sanford Wallace spamming saga is a $230 million verdict against Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, when they failed to show up in court.
Wallace and Rines were accused by MySpace of creating their own accounts and taking over other accounts through phishing scams, and then using those accounts to send out bogus emails to other members. The emails sent would indicate a video or web site but when people would go to the link, the two would make money through the number of hits generated or they would try to sell something such as ring tones.
According to MySpace, the pair sent over 730,000 emails to members which resulted in bandwidth and delivery-related costs as well as complaints from hundreds of members. The 2003 CAN-SPAM Act allows MySpace to collect $100 per violation or triple that amount when the spam is sent 'willfully and knowingly.'"
Did they check his Twitter?
Well, as long as Sanford's brother Marcellus doesn't get convicted, then everything is okay.
This guy's the limit!
Forgot that thing beginning with G? A good place to start looking is http://www.google.com/ , you can find most things there if you remember a few details.
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...but they'll never take our FRRRREEEEEED-oh, wait, wrong Wallace. Sorry.
I know how to make the Superbowl Halftime Show NOT suck. Execute Spamford Wallace on the field.
Don't just execute him. Make a game of it. Bring down the lucky fans who have their seats drawn or something along the lines, and give them lead weighted or steel footballs to throw at him. The one who delivers the death ball (could be the first guy if he's good enough) wins a Chevy truck.
During the world series, have a contest taking out his partner.
Then we need to get the rest of the world involved, I'm sure something could be done with the world cup. The Olympics? Well China has LOTS of spammers in their country, and they have no problem executing criminals either. I could see contest with discus, shot put, and javelins.
Make this the year of spammer carnage, see if we get much spam next year. We wouldn't even have to execute them all, just a few high profile ones at a few events and the others will chicken out. At least in Spamford Wallaces case his will be well earned.
Can you imagine the advertising revenue doing this would generate in the half time show? People would tune in just for the half time show, talk about a win/win situation.
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cf. "the mall"
In the late 90's, I got pulled into a VP's office, because someone in our building had accessed an "inappropriate" web page during our late night shift in a wafer fab. I pointed out that I don't have access to the area where the offices are (I was a clean room tech back then), and asked if they looked to see who had entered the area with their electronic key. Then I asked what website they had visited. They looked at the stack of papers and said, "Excite.com".. I laughed and asked if they had ever looked at the site. (they hadn't) Maybe thats why I am so deadset against filtering now!
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
If you can't change something, it's not important? I would have thought more if it made no difference to yourself then it's not important, rather than your ability to do anything about it.
Plus I'm sure if he were really driven he could probably take Myspace out for a while with a co-ordinated physical explosion near their servers, and if he was good enough he could take out their backups too. Likewise several spammers have become well known, so he could try to assassinate one. Not very practical, but he could probably do something if he were bothered enough. Or maybe I've just played too many violent computer games.
which is totally what she said
Well, MySpace goes against my principle that human beings shouldn't be encouraged to engage in attention whoring. Spammers just piss me off.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
I'm sure his twitter will get checked often enough if he gets caught violating the injunction.
since I haven't even been served in this case since the preliminary injunction
So he was served. What, he was expecting an engraved invitation to every court date? It doesn't work that way.
Regardless, the check's in the mail.
Oh I hope so, check fraud for that amount is a felony.
-- Alastair
Indeed, I hate myspace, and I think I've been there possibly 2 times ever.
I hate spam, and last week I had ~1600 of them show up in my spam folders.
Yeah, which one am I going to focus on, which one indeed. Perhaps the one which follows me around offering me low cost answers to bulk up my penis. Never mind that if my penis were any larger it would take a genetically altered walking vagina to use.