1st Trial Under California Spam Law Slams Spammer 126
www.sorehands.com writes "In the first case brought by a spam recipient to actually go to trial in California, the Superior Court of California held that people who receive false and deceptive spam emails are entitled to liquidated damages of $1,000 per email under California Business & Professions Code Section 17529.5. In the California Superior Court ruling (PDF), Judge Marie S. Weiner made many references to the fact that Defendants used anonymous domain name registration and used unregistered business names in her ruling. This is different from the Gordon case, where one only had to perform a simple whois lookup to identify the sender; here, Defendants used 'from' lines of 'Paid Survey' and 'Your Promotion' with anonymously registered domain names. Judge Weiner's decision makes it clear that the California law is not preempted by the I CAN-SPAM Act. This has been determined in a few prior cases, including my own. (See http://www.barbieslapp.com/spam for some of those cases.)"
Missing item... (Score:4, Funny)
Uhm, you're supposed to post an web or e-mail address link so people can reach you in the summary.
Nice (Score:1, Funny)
This is what should happen for all SPAMMERs. Once this happens to everyone, there would be thicker lines drawn between what is SPAM and whats not. Organizations that do SPAM to provide their advertisements for FREE, even the ones that have the UNSUBSCRIBE button should start getting this kind of penalties.
Re:One jurisdiction down, how many to go? (Score:1, Funny)
Just one... Kentucky [slashdot.org]!
Better headline (Score:5, Funny)
"Slamming spam lands spammer in slammer"
Re:It's Not Going To Make A Difference (Score:5, Funny)
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
Very disappointed (Score:5, Funny)
www.barbieslapp.com was not at all what I was hoping it would be about.
Re:Better headline (Score:4, Funny)
"Slamming spam lands spammer in slammer"
Now his ham will get hammered in that slammer!
new plugin for gmail (Score:4, Funny)
Can I get a "sue" button on my gmail spam folder? I'd love to get $1000 for each of the of spam emails I get everyday.
Re:Better headline (Score:4, Funny)
I was thinking he might be having problems with some unsolicited male in his outbox?
Re:It's Not Going To Make A Difference (Score:2, Funny)
And I used to think my 5 year old daughter was a drama queen.
Re:It's Not Going To Make A Difference (Score:1, Funny)
You're one of "the slashdotters". I assume you'd be howling in outrage as well?