Comments on: MySpace wins suit against 'spam king'

Accused in lawsuit of spamming MySpace users, Sanford Wallace fails to show up for court and loses default judgment.

[pochi586]

article

This article was very poorly edited. I expect more from google
front page items.

[groink_hi]

It is a blog, moron.

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[i_am_still_wade]

What good is a fine going to do?

Okay, so he faces a huge fine. Will that stop him? Obviously not, because he already has a huge fine. If you want to stop spam and phising, take away their computers for years and/or put them in jail for years. Of course, China and Russia would still be a problem with this sort of stuff.

[Fireweaver]

Fines

Either he makes way more money than the cost of any fines by doing what he does or he just doesn't pay the fines (he seems to have a general contempt for court processes).

Jail time seems like the only reasonably action for this jerk, followed by probation that prohibits him from using computers- backed up with more jail time if he fails to comply.

[an eccentric old geezer]

huge fine? there is NO fine.

The court did not fine Wallace. The court issued a judgment against Wallace and in favor of MySpace. In other words, the court said that Wallace owes MySpace a certain amount of money. It is now up to MySpace to ask Wallace for that money. If Wallace explicitly and absolutely refuses to pay, then Myspace might be able to go back to court and ask for help enforcing the judgment, but only if Wallace has assets within the jurisdiction of the court. If Wallace doesn't explicitly refuse, but does more of the delaying/avoiding tacticts he has already shown himself expert at, then MySpace will have to convince the court that those tactics are the equivalent of an explicit refusal. To collect anything will take many many years and much more in court fees and attorney fees than they will ever collect.

[Penguinisto]

I'm surprised that fool is still alive.

...I would've sworn by now that some torqued-off mail sysadmin would've put his severed head on a pike by now.

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