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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 04:47:45 am

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 04:47:45 am

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/20/isp_wins_1bn_damages_from_spammers/
[q]A small US ISP has been awarded damages of $1bn against three spammers by an Iowa judge. The surreal size of the award was arrived at under an Iowa law which fines spammers $10 for each unsolicited emai they send.

CIS Internet Services supplies email services for 5,000 customers in and around Clinton, Iowa. At one point in 2000 the ISP was receiving up to 10 million spams a day - mostly directed to non-existent email addresses. The source of the addresses was a CDROM called Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies. This contained 2.8m email addresses supposedly for customers of CIS, as well as millions of addresses, mostly bogus, for the likes of AOL, Hotmail and Earthlink, AP reports.

In 2003 Robert Kramer, CIS's owner, filed John Doe suits against 300 spammers. On Friday, a US district judge issued default judgments against three companies which failed to turn up to an earlier hearing in November to defend themselve . Kramer is unlikely to collect any damages, but his lawyer is hopeful that he can claw back legal costs.

The three companies which are supposed to pay damages are: AMP Dollar Savings Inc.($720m) of Arizona; Cash Link Systems Inc.($360m) and TEI Marketing Group Inc ($140,000), both of Florida. ®[/q]
Wahey :D

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Styxx on December 20, 2004, 05:32:10 am

* points and laughs at spammers *

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Turnsky on December 20, 2004, 05:54:09 am

serves them bloody right.

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Fineus on December 20, 2004, 06:06:44 am

Good.

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Gloriano on December 20, 2004, 06:12:11 am

Good news.

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 07:11:52 am

This is pretty much the only way to stop Spam. If it's no longer economically viable then they'll have to stop.

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Clave on December 20, 2004, 07:18:47 am

About time someone kicked thier assets...

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Cabbie on December 20, 2004, 07:28:57 am

yes

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Setekh on December 20, 2004, 08:48:35 am

If only that could stop them. They even got to my Gmail account... good thing Google's spam filters are pretty good.

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: Tiara on December 20, 2004, 08:55:00 am

Those were only a few out of the thousands upon thousands of spammers. This is like killing a single bee in a beehive to get the honey. It doesn't work unless you smoke 'm all out.

Title: US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 10:39:55 am

Yeah but once everyone starts to realise that this works the ISPs will rush to grab the free money :D