Comments on: MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'

Lawsuit alleges that Sanford Wallace launched a phishing scam in October to fraudulently access MySpace profiles.

[SeizeCTRL]

Too bad this isn't Russia

This "spam king" would quickly meet an unfortunate accident.

I think it should be legal to hunt down the spamers and beat the ever living hell out of them. Make up some post spam stress disorder type disease and walk out of court with the sympathy of the jury.

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mySpace isn't doing enough

They ought to cite this man's repeated illegal behavior and request he be banned from all internet related business activities.

[wbenton]

It will continue...

He has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies including America Online and Concentric Network Corp and now by MySpace... and over time... he'll also probably be sued by others.

The problem here is that our current laws just aren't strong enough to take him out of business.

His business is so lucrative, that the punitive damages he must pay out... even if in the millions, is probably only a drop in the bucket of his total earnings.

The PROFIT MUST be taken out of Spamming or else it will continue.

Things like a $1.00/Spam fine with a minimum of 10-15 years in prison. For those major spammers who send out millions of spam a day, that would run the fines up to millions of dollars per day!!!

Spam needs to be canned. And the only way to do it is to make it unprofitable and not worth the risk of long imprisonment!

FWIW