i think its good for someone to finally be caught for the spam people build up i don't think im the only one who comes online to just do whatever and doesn't want to be bugged with spam in my e-mail or anywhere else. so brovo.
i think its good for someone to finally be caught for the spam people build up i don't think im the only one who comes online to just do whatever and doesn't want to be bugged with spam in my e-mail or anywhere else. so brovo.
i've gotten emails on myspace from people that give me their aim screen names such as monicajames55, and naughtyrj05 at first they sound like regular people and then they start giving me porn sites.. another issue on myspace is prejudice people. one time i remember that a 'couple' emailed me and told me i was stupid just because of the things i said on my profile. i found it to be very offensive to me.
i've gotten emails on myspace from people that give me their aim screen names such as monicajames55, and naughtyrj05 at first they sound like regular people and then they start giving me porn sites.. another issue on myspace is prejudice people. one time i remember that a 'couple' emailed me and told me i was stupid just because of the things i said on my profile. i found it to be very offensive to me.
Ok seriously... lets realize something here. The internet is a HUGE place where MANY people and companies advertise in various ways. And it just so happens to be that many of those ways are "unwanted" and generally considered "spam". Think of all the junk/spam mail u get evvvvvveryday. Whether it be Porn, mortgage, weightloss pills.. whatever... its unwanted. What this kid did is the same exact thing, he just found a different way to do it. 13 Yr old kids email boxes are full of these emails no matter how hard we try to stop it. Myspace has many people under the "age minimum"... no one enforces it. To say he advertised "porn" to minors is absolutly rediculous. There are so many websites with unscensored porn ads, so to come down on this one guy has to be one of the stupidest things i've heard. If your gonna arrest one guy for an ad... you better damn well arrest every person who puts an ad on their website that other people can see. I dont want to see or hear that annoying ringtone add on MySpace. Does that mean its unwanted? Is that spam? spim? To whose stardards is it "unwanted" anyways. Ads are ads they are everywhere its the internet if ur gonna be on the internet learn to deal with them because they will never go away. Only thing this guy did wrong was blackmail or w/e MySpace... retard God i love freedom of speach
why wouldnt you come down so hard on this one guy. if they continued to not come down hard on "this one guy." they would never start comeing down on anyone to stop this. its good that they finally started coming down on people for doin this. i believe they should have him pay in someway for doin this because it is illegal plus he threatened the guy at myspace. but i believe they should make the people doin this and the company they do it for both pay. the company for having people do this and the person who actually does it for agreeing to do something illegal. but like i said earlier its a good thing they are doin somethin because everything has to start somewhere.
Ok seriously... lets realize something here. The internet is a HUGE place where MANY people and companies advertise in various ways. And it just so happens to be that many of those ways are "unwanted" and generally considered "spam". Think of all the junk/spam mail u get evvvvvveryday. Whether it be Porn, mortgage, weightloss pills.. whatever... its unwanted. What this kid did is the same exact thing, he just found a different way to do it. 13 Yr old kids email boxes are full of these emails no matter how hard we try to stop it. Myspace has many people under the "age minimum"... no one enforces it. To say he advertised "porn" to minors is absolutly rediculous. There are so many websites with unscensored porn ads, so to come down on this one guy has to be one of the stupidest things i've heard. If your gonna arrest one guy for an ad... you better damn well arrest every person who puts an ad on their website that other people can see. I dont want to see or hear that annoying ringtone add on MySpace. Does that mean its unwanted? Is that spam? spim? To whose stardards is it "unwanted" anyways. Ads are ads they are everywhere its the internet if ur gonna be on the internet learn to deal with them because they will never go away. Only thing this guy did wrong was blackmail or w/e MySpace... retard God i love freedom of speach
why wouldnt you come down so hard on this one guy. if they continued to not come down hard on "this one guy." they would never start comeing down on anyone to stop this. its good that they finally started coming down on people for doin this. i believe they should have him pay in someway for doin this because it is illegal plus he threatened the guy at myspace. but i believe they should make the people doin this and the company they do it for both pay. the company for having people do this and the person who actually does it for agreeing to do something illegal. but like i said earlier its a good thing they are doin somethin because everything has to start somewhere.
While I totally agree with you, I can't figure out why the younger generation uses the word gay to describe something bad. Yet they never think they might be in mixed company.
While I totally agree with you, I can't figure out why the younger generation uses the word gay to describe something bad. Yet they never think they might be in mixed company.
If anyone else tries to do what he did as he said people would do, he should be punished more as an example. Every spam report= another half a year in jail, or something of the subject. Then spammers will see that we mean business, and that they're lucky they haven't been caught yet.
SPAM/SPIM should be illegal because if it isn't, people think, "Hey! It's completely legal! I can do it, so I will!" And then said idiot spams 3290589058 people about their dog porn or whatever.
SPAM is a problem because people are letting them get away with it.
If anyone else tries to do what he did as he said people would do, he should be punished more as an example. Every spam report= another half a year in jail, or something of the subject. Then spammers will see that we mean business, and that they're lucky they haven't been caught yet.
SPAM/SPIM should be illegal because if it isn't, people think, "Hey! It's completely legal! I can do it, so I will!" And then said idiot spams 3290589058 people about their dog porn or whatever.
SPAM is a problem because people are letting them get away with it.
The reason spam exists is because it works. Get people to stop clicking on links and buying whatever crap they are selling, and spam will go away. Don't blame spammers, blame the idiots that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, much less own and operate a computer. Yes, there needs to be laws controlling these people, but as a whole we all need to take responsibility for this.
If you are in a public chatroom, you can hardly complain about getting unsolicited messages of any kind, whether it is someone wanting to start a conversation or someone sending you links. To even complain about it, is silly.
As for this guy, if he is dumb enough to try and blackmail a company(or anybody), he deserves to be in jail.
If I am sitting chatting to fiends in a public bar, reading my correspondence on the Internet terminal in a public library or standing in the street talking to my neighbours, I don't expect to have to tolerate people bombarding me with unsolicited information. Why should I tolerate it when I am doing similar things online?
The reason spam exists is because it works. Get people to stop clicking on links and buying whatever crap they are selling, and spam will go away. Don't blame spammers, blame the idiots that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, much less own and operate a computer. Yes, there needs to be laws controlling these people, but as a whole we all need to take responsibility for this.
If you are in a public chatroom, you can hardly complain about getting unsolicited messages of any kind, whether it is someone wanting to start a conversation or someone sending you links. To even complain about it, is silly.
As for this guy, if he is dumb enough to try and blackmail a company(or anybody), he deserves to be in jail.
If I am sitting chatting to fiends in a public bar, reading my correspondence on the Internet terminal in a public library or standing in the street talking to my neighbours, I don't expect to have to tolerate people bombarding me with unsolicited information. Why should I tolerate it when I am doing similar things online?
SPIM should be illegal because it's harrassment. I'm pretty sure it doesn't say anything about SPIM/SPAM being okay in the Terms and Agreements of MySpace's website. Telemarketing is illegal, because it's harrassment. SPIMMING/SPAMMING is the exact same thing, except over the Internet and slightly more anonymous. That doesn't make it right though. Yes, I am well aware that there is a block button. But you know what? I didn't agree when I joined the site that I'd have to constantly be using it. Sure, I can block a SPIMMER. But then another one just pops up. Blocking does absolutely nothing. It's like putting a band-aid on a huge gaping hole in a ship. It's NOT gonna work.
There are companies who SPAM/SPIM, and yes, you can't arrest an entire company. But this MySpace guy acted alone. I suppose that the punishment for SPAMMING companies could be that the government breaks that company up.
SPIMMING/SPAMMING SHOULD be illegal because it is harrassment and no one should have to put up with that crap, whether it be online or offline, caused by a single member or an entire party.
SPIM should be illegal because it's harrassment. I'm pretty sure it doesn't say anything about SPIM/SPAM being okay in the Terms and Agreements of MySpace's website. Telemarketing is illegal, because it's harrassment. SPIMMING/SPAMMING is the exact same thing, except over the Internet and slightly more anonymous. That doesn't make it right though. Yes, I am well aware that there is a block button. But you know what? I didn't agree when I joined the site that I'd have to constantly be using it. Sure, I can block a SPIMMER. But then another one just pops up. Blocking does absolutely nothing. It's like putting a band-aid on a huge gaping hole in a ship. It's NOT gonna work.
There are companies who SPAM/SPIM, and yes, you can't arrest an entire company. But this MySpace guy acted alone. I suppose that the punishment for SPAMMING companies could be that the government breaks that company up.
SPIMMING/SPAMMING SHOULD be illegal because it is harrassment and no one should have to put up with that crap, whether it be online or offline, caused by a single member or an entire party.
Wow...I never knew somebody could get arrested for Spamming! This is really quite interesting..I am a member of MySpace.com, but never once have I known this guy..how strange..Thats just weird because I have never heard of a person bein prosecuted for Sapmming...better yet arrested! This is really something!
I think he's really been arrested for extortion, not spamming. Unfortunately, spamming by itself is not illegal--you have to commit some other crime while spamming, such as using fraudulent headers or something like that. This guy basically told MySpace to let him continue doing it legitimating or he would tell others how to spam MySpace users, so, in a sense, he threatened their business somewhat by threatening to dump more spam on MySpace users--definitely adding a reason not to use the service.
Wow...I never knew somebody could get arrested for Spamming! This is really quite interesting..I am a member of MySpace.com, but never once have I known this guy..how strange..Thats just weird because I have never heard of a person bein prosecuted for Sapmming...better yet arrested! This is really something!
I think he's really been arrested for extortion, not spamming. Unfortunately, spamming by itself is not illegal--you have to commit some other crime while spamming, such as using fraudulent headers or something like that. This guy basically told MySpace to let him continue doing it legitimating or he would tell others how to spam MySpace users, so, in a sense, he threatened their business somewhat by threatening to dump more spam on MySpace users--definitely adding a reason not to use the service.
That someone has finally been caught, out of the many who have helped to contribute to the misery of millions as we wade through our inboxes full of trash, can only be a good thing.
What might amaze some people is that the 'Internet Marketeers' who teach people how to bombard others with pointless and mainly ineffective emails, through 'courses' and 'seminars', 'books' and 'tutorials', are not also brought to book, being pretty easy to pin down, were anyone to look for them.
A great deal of the junk mail that arrives in the average inbox falls into three main categories.
Some is pushing pharmaceuticals designed to allay the fear of being inadequate or overweight. Some dangles the prospect of unsecured loans and mortgages before those who are already crushed by the weight of a credit burden they have acquired through gullibility and some attempts to persuade would-be entrepreneurs that telling others how to sit around telling others how to make money on the Internet is some kind of fulfilling career.
If I had a male member, and were I to have responded to just a fraction of the mail received with offers of help in lengthening it, I could probably have increased it's length sufficiently to tie a knot around the planet earth by now!
Many regular users of the Internet whose inboxes haven't already filtered it out unseen, have learned to recognise and delete junk mail without opening it, so that it merely annoys but doesn't hit home anyway.
If only the people who send out all that unsolicited, badly-written and totally un-targeted trash were to apply their energies to doing almost anything intelliegent properly online, they would probably make more money in an interesting way than they do whilst occupied in what must be the most tedious and mind-numbing 'work' of all time.
What the spimmers and spammers mainly seem to succeed in doing is putting some people off taking the Internet as seriously as they might and convincing others that the it is an underworld from which they would be safest staying away.
If people are actually making money from spim and spam, it should be seized just as the proceeds of any other organised crime are seized.
That someone has finally been caught, out of the many who have helped to contribute to the misery of millions as we wade through our inboxes full of trash, can only be a good thing.
What might amaze some people is that the 'Internet Marketeers' who teach people how to bombard others with pointless and mainly ineffective emails, through 'courses' and 'seminars', 'books' and 'tutorials', are not also brought to book, being pretty easy to pin down, were anyone to look for them.
A great deal of the junk mail that arrives in the average inbox falls into three main categories.
Some is pushing pharmaceuticals designed to allay the fear of being inadequate or overweight. Some dangles the prospect of unsecured loans and mortgages before those who are already crushed by the weight of a credit burden they have acquired through gullibility and some attempts to persuade would-be entrepreneurs that telling others how to sit around telling others how to make money on the Internet is some kind of fulfilling career.
If I had a male member, and were I to have responded to just a fraction of the mail received with offers of help in lengthening it, I could probably have increased it's length sufficiently to tie a knot around the planet earth by now!
Many regular users of the Internet whose inboxes haven't already filtered it out unseen, have learned to recognise and delete junk mail without opening it, so that it merely annoys but doesn't hit home anyway.
If only the people who send out all that unsolicited, badly-written and totally un-targeted trash were to apply their energies to doing almost anything intelliegent properly online, they would probably make more money in an interesting way than they do whilst occupied in what must be the most tedious and mind-numbing 'work' of all time.
What the spimmers and spammers mainly seem to succeed in doing is putting some people off taking the Internet as seriously as they might and convincing others that the it is an underworld from which they would be safest staying away.
If people are actually making money from spim and spam, it should be seized just as the proceeds of any other organised crime are seized.
Let's tolerate everything intolerable. Let's accept the deforestation of the entire planet so that we have a lack of breathable air to worry about sometime very soon - that'll take our minds off the junk mail...
Let's tolerate mugging - hey those poor guys have got to make a living haven't they?
Should we tolerate paedophilia because those guys can't help their repugnant proclivities?
Would you draw the line anywhere? For goodness sake! Let's stop talking about people's right to make each others' lives a misery and start talking about their responsibility to one another.
Let's tolerate everything intolerable. Let's accept the deforestation of the entire planet so that we have a lack of breathable air to worry about sometime very soon - that'll take our minds off the junk mail...
Let's tolerate mugging - hey those poor guys have got to make a living haven't they?
Should we tolerate paedophilia because those guys can't help their repugnant proclivities?
Would you draw the line anywhere? For goodness sake! Let's stop talking about people's right to make each others' lives a misery and start talking about their responsibility to one another.
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Only thing this guy did wrong was blackmail or w/e MySpace... retard
God i love freedom of speach
Only thing this guy did wrong was blackmail or w/e MySpace... retard
God i love freedom of speach
Mike a happy, gay, 37 year old!
Mike a happy, gay, 37 year old!
You see: spIM.
Not that original, and a little lame, but it works.
You see: spIM.
Not that original, and a little lame, but it works.
SPAM is a problem because people are letting them get away with it.
SPAM is a problem because people are letting them get away with it.
If you are in a public chatroom, you can hardly complain about getting unsolicited messages of any kind, whether it is someone wanting to start a conversation or someone sending you links. To even complain about it, is silly.
As for this guy, if he is dumb enough to try and blackmail a company(or anybody), he deserves to be in jail.
If you are in a public chatroom, you can hardly complain about getting unsolicited messages of any kind, whether it is someone wanting to start a conversation or someone sending you links. To even complain about it, is silly.
As for this guy, if he is dumb enough to try and blackmail a company(or anybody), he deserves to be in jail.
There are companies who SPAM/SPIM, and yes, you can't arrest an entire company. But this MySpace guy acted alone. I suppose that the punishment for SPAMMING companies could be that the government breaks that company up.
SPIMMING/SPAMMING SHOULD be illegal because it is harrassment and no one should have to put up with that crap, whether it be online or offline, caused by a single member or an entire party.
There are companies who SPAM/SPIM, and yes, you can't arrest an entire company. But this MySpace guy acted alone. I suppose that the punishment for SPAMMING companies could be that the government breaks that company up.
SPIMMING/SPAMMING SHOULD be illegal because it is harrassment and no one should have to put up with that crap, whether it be online or offline, caused by a single member or an entire party.
What might amaze some people is that the 'Internet Marketeers' who teach people how to bombard others with pointless and mainly ineffective emails, through 'courses' and 'seminars', 'books' and 'tutorials', are not also brought to book, being pretty easy to pin down, were anyone to look for them.
A great deal of the junk mail that arrives in the average inbox falls into three main categories.
Some is pushing pharmaceuticals designed to allay the fear of being inadequate or overweight. Some dangles the prospect of unsecured loans and mortgages before those who are already crushed by the weight of a credit burden they have acquired through gullibility and some attempts to persuade would-be entrepreneurs that telling others how to sit around telling others how to make money on the Internet is some kind of fulfilling career.
If I had a male member, and were I to have responded to just a fraction of the mail received with offers of help in lengthening it, I could probably have increased it's length sufficiently to tie a knot around the planet earth by now!
Many regular users of the Internet whose inboxes haven't already filtered it out unseen, have learned to recognise and delete junk mail without opening it, so that it merely annoys but doesn't hit home anyway.
If only the people who send out all that unsolicited, badly-written and totally un-targeted trash were to apply their energies to doing almost anything intelliegent properly online, they would probably make more money in an interesting way than they do whilst occupied in what must be the most tedious and mind-numbing 'work' of all time.
What the spimmers and spammers mainly seem to succeed in doing is putting some people off taking the Internet as seriously as they might and convincing others that the it is an underworld from which they would be safest staying away.
If people are actually making money from spim and spam, it should be seized just as the proceeds of any other organised crime are seized.
What might amaze some people is that the 'Internet Marketeers' who teach people how to bombard others with pointless and mainly ineffective emails, through 'courses' and 'seminars', 'books' and 'tutorials', are not also brought to book, being pretty easy to pin down, were anyone to look for them.
A great deal of the junk mail that arrives in the average inbox falls into three main categories.
Some is pushing pharmaceuticals designed to allay the fear of being inadequate or overweight. Some dangles the prospect of unsecured loans and mortgages before those who are already crushed by the weight of a credit burden they have acquired through gullibility and some attempts to persuade would-be entrepreneurs that telling others how to sit around telling others how to make money on the Internet is some kind of fulfilling career.
If I had a male member, and were I to have responded to just a fraction of the mail received with offers of help in lengthening it, I could probably have increased it's length sufficiently to tie a knot around the planet earth by now!
Many regular users of the Internet whose inboxes haven't already filtered it out unseen, have learned to recognise and delete junk mail without opening it, so that it merely annoys but doesn't hit home anyway.
If only the people who send out all that unsolicited, badly-written and totally un-targeted trash were to apply their energies to doing almost anything intelliegent properly online, they would probably make more money in an interesting way than they do whilst occupied in what must be the most tedious and mind-numbing 'work' of all time.
What the spimmers and spammers mainly seem to succeed in doing is putting some people off taking the Internet as seriously as they might and convincing others that the it is an underworld from which they would be safest staying away.
If people are actually making money from spim and spam, it should be seized just as the proceeds of any other organised crime are seized.
Let's tolerate mugging - hey those poor guys have got to make a living haven't they?
Should we tolerate paedophilia because those guys can't help their repugnant proclivities?
Would you draw the line anywhere? For goodness sake! Let's stop talking about people's right to make each others' lives a misery and start talking about their responsibility to one another.
Let's tolerate mugging - hey those poor guys have got to make a living haven't they?
Should we tolerate paedophilia because those guys can't help their repugnant proclivities?
Would you draw the line anywhere? For goodness sake! Let's stop talking about people's right to make each others' lives a misery and start talking about their responsibility to one another.