UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense 310
woodhouse writes "The BBC has an article about the new UK anti-spamming law which comes into force later this year. Under the new law, spammers can be fined up to 5000 pounds in a magistrates court, or an unlimited amount in the crown court. Sadly, prison terms won't be used to enforce of the new law."
Re:I WIN FAGS!! (Score:0, Funny)
could be worse (Score:5, Funny)
You insensitive clod... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no, we need to get these violent people off the streets before they e-mail again!
Jail time? (Score:3, Funny)
Jail time? How about death sentence.
skip prison... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously...while we all hate spam...someone *really* wants spammers in jail? On the right is the rapist, then murderer, then child molester, then spammer.
5000 pounds, eh? (Score:0, Funny)
Billy Tauzin's Opt-Out spam bill (Score:5, Funny)
Re:skip prison... (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder if the spammer would be interested in selling penis enlargements to his cellmates?
5000 pounds you say? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:UK?!?!?! What about the hurricane!?! (Score:1, Funny)
After all, what's the going rate for a trailer?
Re:Prison should be reserved for violent criminals (Score:3, Funny)
Subject: H0T PR1S0N R4P3...........493121742
Subject: R A P E ACTION!
Subject: F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1 (ye47fa3d)
You were saying?
Bullshit (Score:4, Funny)
Re:skip prison... (Score:5, Funny)
"I didn't get nothin'," I said, "I had to pay $100,000 and help secure a couple dozen open relays."
"What were you in for?"
"Spamming"
. . . and they all moved away from me on the Group W bench and gave me the hairy eyeball and all sorts of mean nasty stuff, until I said "and promoting Viagra and free pr0n" and they all shook my hand and we had a great time playing with the pencils and using the computers on the shelf by the window to strip a couple of mailing lists for addresses.
Re:This is a good start (Score:2, Funny)
Better punishment idea (Score:2, Funny)
Make them copy each mail...BY HAND!
If the spammer send 10 000 of a specific message:
Punish him by making him write 10 000 copies of the mail sent. With PEN and PAPER.
And of course... the spammer would have to pay for the papers and pens as well.
That ought to teach him/her!!!
And yeah... if the mail contains images or such...
let him/her write the ones and zeroes....
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
let's stop with the juvenille, knee-jerk reactions
You must be new here.
Re:This is a good start (Score:2, Funny)
Spam lobbyists will push for further subsidies each year while shutting out foreign spam supplies for their horrible spam dumping trade practices.
The WTO will find in favour of the foreign spam sources time and time again, but the US will continue on because US spam is the only true spam.
had enough?
Re:Prison should be reserved for violent criminals (Score:5, Funny)
I just love the way Americans always equate prison with forced anal intercourse. It's an everyday thing, just like going to McDonalds.
Never once heard any of you outraged over this matter. It's just a fact of life, and something you most probably deserve when you go to prison. A good hard pounding in the ass.
It's a good thing that the US legal system is infallible, and that your judges probably take this into account when they pass sentences. Five years imprisonment in most other developed countries probably equates to two years with three brutal ass poundings per day in an American one.
Mighty fine country you're running over there.
Stone the *&^*% spammers (Score:2, Funny)
Dreams are better as dreams than reality.
Rav
"new UK anti-spamming law " (Score:4, Funny)