Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Big new spam case filed, by the big ISPs, against someof the big spammers, under the new Can Spam Act. Too new for me to assess outcomes.
update:
America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, four of the largest US e-mail and Internet providers, announced Wednesday at a Washington press conference (recorded video to be available shortly here) that they had filed the first major industry lawsuits under new federal anti-spam legislation (the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing - CAN-SPAM - Act of 2003 [PDF], which came into force January 1) against hundreds of defendants, including some of the nation's biggest spammers. The suits will proceed in federal courts in California, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington State. Read a joint press release here, detailing the lawsuits. CNET has more. findlaw has the complaints. (to access links, click 'update.')
Early thoughts: If msn is involved, must be evil. Slightly torn - hate spam, love free speech.
Later thoughts after reading the complaint (in .pdfformat,which i hate)
- some of the counts look solid.
- some are iffy: trespass to chattels, conversion, unauthorized access, etc.
- some are bogus, and violate the speech and commerce rights of d's, so they can countersue, for 41 billion or whatever current net worth of msn.
Looks like Gate's dad's firm is counsel.
update:
America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, four of the largest US e-mail and Internet providers, announced Wednesday at a Washington press conference (recorded video to be available shortly here) that they had filed the first major industry lawsuits under new federal anti-spam legislation (the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing - CAN-SPAM - Act of 2003 [PDF], which came into force January 1) against hundreds of defendants, including some of the nation's biggest spammers. The suits will proceed in federal courts in California, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington State. Read a joint press release here, detailing the lawsuits. CNET has more. findlaw has the complaints. (to access links, click 'update.')
Early thoughts: If msn is involved, must be evil. Slightly torn - hate spam, love free speech.
Later thoughts after reading the complaint (in .pdfformat,which i hate)
- some of the counts look solid.
- some are iffy: trespass to chattels, conversion, unauthorized access, etc.
- some are bogus, and violate the speech and commerce rights of d's, so they can countersue, for 41 billion or whatever current net worth of msn.
Looks like Gate's dad's firm is counsel.
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