On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Gadi Evron wrote:
Hank Nussbacher wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/18/spam.lawsuit.ap/index.html
What a nice present for the holiday season :-)
-Hank
Indeed! If it will hold after the appeal. Thing is, the spammers are not there to be found for paying, so they might not exist for appealing. Meaning this might become a real legal precedence.. so maybe there will even be a second.
While it is a victory in the Legal sense, it doesn't actually have any consequence to the spammers: "Kramer's attorney, Kelly Wallace, said he is unlikely to ever collect the judgment, which was made possible by an Iowa law that allows plaintiffs to claim damages of $10 per spam message. The judgments were then tripled under RICO. "We hope to recover at least his costs," Wallace said." -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST