Electronics & Computers Deals here!MySpace wins $234 million antispam judgment
Social-networking site MySpace.com has won a $234 million antispam judgment, according to the Associated Press.
On the losing side of the award--believed to be the largest ever under the 2003 Can-Spam Act--were defendants Walter Rines and Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king. MySpace won the case against Wallace after he failed numerous times to turn over documents or show up for court.
"MySpace has zero tolerance for those who attempt to act illegally on our site," MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam told the AP. "We remain committed to punishing those who violate the law and try to harm our members."
In March of last year, MySpace filed suit against Wallace, alleging he launched a phishing scam to fraudulently access MySpace profiles. Wallace was also accused of spamming thousands of MySpace users with unwanted advertisements and luring them to his Web sites.
MySpace said Wallace and Rines sent 735,925 messages to MySpace members. Under the Can-Spam Act, each violation entitles MySpace to $100 in damages, tripled when conducted "willfully and knowingly," according to the report.
Wallace has previously been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies such as AOL and Concentric Network. In May 2006, Wallace and his company Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to turn over $4.1 million.
Wallace earned the nicknames "Spamford" and "spam king" for his past role as head of CyberPromotions, a company responsible for sending as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.
People knowingly allow other people to send them email. If they don't want email, they wouldn't have an email address in the first place. Don't blame others for sending you email. You have yourself to blame when you want to receive email. You have the right to delete and block any email you don't like. No one is forcing you to read email you don't like. Why ban spam? Spams are email you don't like. If you spend hours deleting spams, you are the dumb people. I have no spams because every email I receive goes into my spam box unless it's on my permitted list. If you do that, you wouldn't get any spam. The fact that you allow every email to get into your inbox, you are opening yourself to everyone on the Internet to email you. I don't, i only allow people I know in my inbox, all others, spam box because I don't give a damn to anyone else except for the people I permit in my inbox.
Please people, be smart. You need to understand what free speech is.
Thank you.
People knowingly allow other people to send them email. If they don't want email, they wouldn't have an email address in the first place. Don't blame others for sending you email. You have yourself to blame when you want to receive email. You have the right to delete and block any email you don't like. No one is forcing you to read email you don't like. Why ban spam? Spams are email you don't like. If you spend hours deleting spams, you are the dumb people. I have no spams because every email I receive goes into my spam box unless it's on my permitted list. If you do that, you wouldn't get any spam. The fact that you allow every email to get into your inbox, you are opening yourself to everyone on the Internet to email you. I don't, i only allow people I know in my inbox, all others, spam box because I don't give a damn to anyone else except for the people I permit in my inbox.
Please people, be smart. You need to understand what free speech is.
Thank you.
Furthermore, you fail to realize that most spam is little more that a scam and, most importantly, utilizes bandwidth at the expense of others.
Lastly, years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that free speech is not an absolute right, which can be used irresponsibly at the expense of others. Consider that you cannot shout that there is a fire in a building when the fire is nonexistent.