Comments on: FTC takes aim at alleged spyware distributor

In a lawsuit, the commission alleges that two companies engaged in unfair acts and practices with their marketing and software.

[zaznet]

New Law Not Needed.

The FTC does not need a new law to take a company to court for bad business practices that give would-be customers a difficult time with the products they are marketing. Certainly when methods are used to hook a customer without their willing participation it makes it a predatory practice that should not be tollerated.

[katamari]

You mean Spamford?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Wallace

Nice try.

[landlines]

Hope someone files a class action against this jerk

If this jerk has any significant assets, I hope someone files a class action to take them away from him. There should be no doubt that actual damages were incurred by each of his victims who received his spyware.

The prospect of being sued by a million victims would probably be a better deterrent than another Federal law. But let's go ahead and explicitly outlaw computer espionage just to make sure the spammers have no leg to stand on.

Spam!! Who gives a **** about spam!!

Lets be fair, spam is just electronic junk mail. For most users it's just the quantity that is the problem.

Spyware is like an advertiser flyposting your house, including the interior, then putting you under surveillance to see how you react.