Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million 135
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook has been awarded $360,500,000 in damages against spammer Philip Porembski, who phished the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Facebook claimed it received more than 8,000 complaints from users as a result of the spam campaign, and more than 4,500 users had deactivated their accounts."
Stupid Court System (Score:3, Interesting)
$360million is a meaningless number which accomplishes nothing. $8,000 would actually have an impact. I'm with the Republicans on this one, tort reform is long overdue.
What the hell? (Score:4, Interesting)
Statutory damages: I hate spammers but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Facebook accounts go high these days (Score:4, Interesting)
"So each Facebook account is worth 80,000 dollars? Well who wants to buy mine?"
I can offer you a pirated Britney song, it's abut the same value.