Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion 379
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innocent_white_lamb writes "A man has been fined ONE BEELYUN DOLLARS (yes, really) for sending 4,366,386 spam messages that were posted on Facebook. He was fined $100 for each message, and including punitive damages he now owes $1,068,928,721.46. A ruling by a US District Court judge in San Jose, California has now been upheld by the Quebec Superior Court (the defendant lives in Montreal)."
Now he's sending out spam.. (Score:5, Funny)
Asking for help paying for it!
Re:Now he's sending out spam.. (Score:5, Funny)
You think that Nigerian prince will help him out?
Mod summary up (Score:2, Funny)
One BEEYLUN DOLLARS! And Sharks with frickin' laser beams!
who knew? (Score:5, Funny)
Who knew that Billion was spelled differently in Canada, maybe it is like color and colour.
He's not very worried (Score:5, Funny)
It's a good news/bad news sort of thing (Score:2, Funny)
From TFA: "He’s also barred from opening a Facebook account."
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:um (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Priorities.. (Score:5, Funny)
Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths, but a spammer that didn't cause any physical harm or death is fined a billion dollars. Let's get some file sharers fined for more than the GDP of several small nations combined too, for good measure.
I hate spammers, but you're telling me that a few million spam messages are worth more than several LIVES and ILLEGAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMANS?
Absolutely! They found a practical use for lawyers! A discovery of that magnitude is worth a Nobel or two.
He said 'experimentation on humans'.
Re: [subject removed] (Score:3, Funny)
Somehow parent seems strangely relevant
Re:Heh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:who knew? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought you spelt it "bouillon"?
Ah oui, but jusque en Kebecke. Here en le Montreal we often say "Ehpardonez moi, allez vous un bouillon dolare? Non? Moi aussi."
Re:Priorities.. (Score:5, Funny)
Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths ...
Oh come on... it's ONLY their bone anchoring glue. I mean, do we even need that? They could have died from anything. Loose bone syndrome. Wandering pelvis. Smoking. Boneitis. All of these are natural causes.
Re:um (Score:5, Funny)
Two uneven halves make it up, they're generally wrinkly and balding, and tend to hang around not doing anything much useful most of the time.
Not too far off the mark?
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:3, Funny)
After he's used it not only has he lost his deposit I don't want it back.
Re: [subject removed] (Score:4, Funny)
You know this is what bugs the hell out of me, it ain't the spam, its the stupidity. So as a public service to future spammers let the old Hairyfeet get up on his stump and pass some common sense...
ATTENTION SPAMMERS...You aren't doing this for your health, right? you actually want to make money doing this one can assume, correct? Then TARGET YOUR FRICKING AUDIENCE!!! dumbasses! This is a fricking geeksite, do you think ANYBODY here gives a shit about sports? what an idiot! Watch and learn moron, THIS is how you sell to geeks..*..Cheap iPad knockoffs!!! [chinagrabber.com] Cool funky flashdrives!!! [chinagrabber.com] Cheap game emulator running MP3 players!!! [chinagrabber.com]
See how easy that was? I bet there is a fricking stampede at that site right now, and their servers are glowing red hot from the giant nerd herd hitting the goodies. It is ALL about targeting your audience. Want to make money with food? Set up a donut shop next to the weight watchers. Want to make money off geeks? Then toys with lots of buttons, flash memory, dodgy hard drives, fake CPUs, all these things are like candy to babies.
*...I'm not actually getting any money for those links, just showing what one would use to target this audience, well and I like cheap toys too ;-)
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Completely different.
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:3, Funny)
No, the real question is how the hell does $100 per message times 4.4 million messages equal $1 billion. $600 million in "punitive damages?"
Plus $400 million in Court Costs for all the copies they had to make.
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:2, Funny)
"Great news, I got your fine reduced from $1 billion to $10 million"
..." and my bill will be just 5 % of this difference."
Re:Now he's sending out spam.. (Score:5, Funny)
Another billion dollars, perhaps.
Maybe we should tell the RIAA that he's been embedding Britney Spears songs as background music in his spam.
Re:Now he's sending out spam.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but "Quebecois" is the French spelling. "Quebecker" is the English one. There are still a few anglophones left in Quebec.
Making it the third most used language after Arabic and French
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if that's more than the number of AOL disks that have been mailed...
No less by about 50.
forget grey goo, I have this nightmare end of world scenario where all of the Earth's matter is converted into AOL disks
Re:I don't feel sorry, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:who knew? (Score:4, Funny)
"Pardon me, are you going to a billion dollars? No? Me also."
I think you accidentally the whole thing.