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Offline Nemesis

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11.2 billion reasons not to spam
« on: January 07, 2006, 09:08:27 pm »
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The firm, CIS Internet Services, won $11.2 billion from James McCalla, from Florida, who was found to have sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP's network.
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Re: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2006, 08:01:00 am »
About time they start cracking down on this.   :thumbsup:
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Re: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2006, 07:46:28 pm »
If they net a few more, it may discouage the lot of them.
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Re: 11.2 billion reasons not to spam
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2006, 03:19:38 pm »
Quote from: E_Look NCC-9091 on January 08, 2006, 07:46:28 pm
If they net a few more, it may discouage the lot of them.

Doubtful.

I mean, that's what they said about filesharing. And in the last few years, filesharing has had more effect on the recording industry than their suits have had on filesharing.

Record Company: "OK. You have 1000 MP3's on your computer at $50,000 each. That'll be $50 MILLION, please, Mr. John Q. Public."

John Q. Public: "$50 MILLION DOLLARS? Where the hell am I supposed to get al that money? You know that you just spent millions to bag me and now aren't gonna recoup a damn thing." *declares bankruptcy and begins putting his new assets in other peoples' names*

Record Company: "Well bloody hell. Why can't we ever catch Teresa Kerry or Bill Gates filesharing?"


Unless they find some whacko multi-billionare that is doing Stupid Stuff(TM), then they are really just whizzing into the wind.
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