MySpace awarded $234 million after suing spammers under CAN-SPAM laws

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MySpace awarded $234 million after suing spammers under CAN-SPAM laws

05-14-2008, 10:32 AM,

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MySpace awarded $234 million after suing spammers under CAN-SPAM laws

Quote:MySpace has informed us that on Monday it was awarded $234 million in statutory damages, the largest anti-spam sum ever made under CAN-SPAM and apparently ever under any law. This is also the first time damages have been awarded under the California Anti Phishing Act.

The case was won against two notorious spammers, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines. Wallace earned the nicknames Spamford and spam king for having sent as many as 30 million spam messages per day during a period of time in the 1990s...

full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/13/mys...n-history/

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