This is all well and good, but... why does it look like these state do-not-call lists all require residents to pay a fee to be listed? As far as I'm concerned, my contact information is my property, and calling me up to sell me something is a privilege -- companies should pay me if they want to do be able to do that.
This sounds like the governments trying to take advantage of the situation the way the phone companies do (e.g., selling people's phone numbers while they sell the people caller ID). If the states want a new source of revenue over this, fine; they should give the consumers privacy for free and charge telemarketers exhorbitant rates to abuse that freedom.
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http://www.junkbusters.com/script.html
Gives them a run for their money and, best of all, if the telemarketer takes a wrong step, they open the company up to legal action.
This sounds like the governments trying to take advantage of the situation the way the phone companies do (e.g., selling people's phone numbers while they sell the people caller ID). If the states want a new source of revenue over this, fine; they should give the consumers privacy for free and charge telemarketers exhorbitant rates to abuse that freedom.