News California wins anti-spam case

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    From the Beeb:

    California has won a landmark judgement with its first anti-spam ruling after a court fined a marketing firm $2m for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails telling people how to spam.
    The state's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, brought the case against PW Marketing of Los Angeles County and its owners, Paul Willis and Claudia Griffin in 2002, under a 1998 state anti-spam law.

    The law was strengthened last month to make it easier to sue spammers.

    PW Marketing, Willis and Griffin were charged with sending out millions of e-mails, including advertising $39 guides on how to spam, along with long lists of e-mail addresses of California residents.


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    It's ironic that the first victim of the anti-spam law is a firm that sent out anti-spam spam.... :hehe:

    But - will this serve as a deterent? will spammers take notice of the hefty fine and mend their ways? I think not - not until there's been a few more large fines handed out, and spam factories start going bust under the weight of the fine imposed.

    I suppose a few 'custodial' sentences wouldn't go amiss either... ;)
     
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