http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/18/spam.lawsuit.ap/index.html What a nice present for the holiday season :-) -Hank
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. Gadi.
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
They did sue 300 spammers, so it's possible that some of them are still around, either as individual proprietors or as corporate entities, but they're only responsible for their individual spamming totals, not the whole billion. Most of the billion dollars was in two big awards, and the other numbers that got into the article were like $140K. But even if there are a dozen that are on the hook for $10K each that still exist and have seizable assets, that's enough to pay the lawyer bills. For the small fry, you probably can't seize their double-wides, but you might get to take their computers and get their DSL shut off. ---- Thanks; Bill Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so far. And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it.
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