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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on January 07, 2006, 09:08:27 pm

Title: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
Post by: Nemesis on January 07, 2006, 09:08:27 pm

Link to full article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28733)

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The firm, CIS Internet Services, won $11.2 billion from James McCalla, from Florida, who was found to have sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP's network.

Title: Re: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
Post by: Javora on January 08, 2006, 08:01:00 am

About time they start cracking down on this.   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
Post by: E_Look on January 08, 2006, 07:46:28 pm

If they net a few more, it may discouage the lot of them.

Title: Re: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
Post by: J. Carney on January 10, 2006, 03:19:38 pm

Quote from: E_Look NCC-9091 on January 08, 2006, 07:46:28 pm

If they net a few more, it may discouage the lot of them.

Doubtful.

I mean, that's what they said about filesharing. And in the last few years, filesharing has had more effect on the recording industry than their suits have had on filesharing.

Record Company: "OK. You have 1000 MP3's on your computer at $50,000 each. That'll be $50 MILLION, please, Mr. John Q. Public."

John Q. Public: "$50 MILLION DOLLARS? Where the hell am I supposed to get al that money? You know that you just spent millions to bag me and now aren't gonna recoup a damn thing." *declares bankruptcy and begins putting his new assets in other peoples' names*

Record Company: "Well bloody hell. Why can't we ever catch Teresa Kerry or Bill Gates filesharing?"


Unless they find some whacko multi-billionare that is doing Stupid Stuff_(TM), then they are really just whizzing into the wind.