[76685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers ordered to pay $1 billion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Boehnlein)
Mon Dec 20 14:32:34 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:29:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/18/spam.lawsuit.ap/index.html
> >
> > What a nice present for the holiday season :-)
> >
> > -Hank
>
> Indeed! If it will hold after the appeal.
> Thing is, the spammers are not there to be found for paying, so they
> might not exist for appealing. Meaning this might become a real legal
> precedence.. so maybe there will even be a second.
While it is a victory in the Legal sense, it doesn't actually have any
consequence to the spammers:
"Kramer's attorney, Kelly Wallace, said he is unlikely to ever collect the
judgment, which was made possible by an Iowa law that allows plaintiffs to
claim damages of $10 per spam message. The judgments were then tripled
under RICO.
"We hope to recover at least his costs," Wallace said."
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