at last!
I think all spammers should receive harsh sentences like this one. Yay for common sense!
A New Yorker was jailed for 30 months on Tuesday after being convicted for spamming 1.2 million AOL members with junk mail. Adam Vitale, 27 and of Brooklyn, was also ordered to pay $180,000 to AOL in restitution for bombarding subscribers to the service with emails punting a "computer security" product. Vitale pleaded guilty ( …
£90k fine- a few pence per user affected and 65 seconds per message seems fine to me, so long as no-one was hurt and nothing "bad" happenned besides someone going "Oh, bloody spam!" or getting beaten up for quoting monty python for the 70th time that day.
I would also make a point of getting a list of the proxies he used and inform their ISPs that this is happenning.
But yeah, seems entirely reasonable to me.
"How is this any different to the junk mail which I physically get shovelled through my door on a daily basis, for crap I don't need or want, such as kitchens, estate agents and credit card companies?"
Difference is: They pay to send that junk.
With Spam you pay to receive it.
The US has a do-not-call database. Canada has a clumsy imitation of its own. The US version will not accept Canadian telephone numbers and vice versa.
So the Montreal boiler room operators target the gullible in the US and vice versa.
The key element in this is that many (most? all?) telemarketing calls are scams of one sort or another, some obviously and overtly criminal, others more subtly so. I regularly receive calls from an outfit apparently based in Tacoma, Washington. This outfit is well-known on the web to be engaged in "vishing" (voice phishing) for CC details they can sell, yet the authorities do not act.
Time to flatly outlaw not only e-spam but t-spam.
Stop it now!
30 months in jail is excessive?
no bloody friggin way add hard labor in very nasty places to boot and daily cane whippings!And maybe just maybe i just maybe would consider it as a justifiable punishment...
same should apply to telemarketers....
BTW one of the problems these parasites exist in first place is because of companies that hire them in first place. so why not go after the people and individuals( particulary individuals since they are the ones making the decision to use these people in first place) and make them serve the sentences side by side?
in for the penny in for the pound as the saying goes...
Not long enough.
Not NEARLY long enough. I think about a month per spam would give them something to think about. These bastards are wrecking the internet.
Even better - a year per spam!!
( I have the words 'death penalty' running about in my head, but that might be a *bit* too harsh... maybe...)