Texas Goes After Student Spammer 161
A number of people wrote in with this story: "Count Texas in the growing list of states fighting spammers with CAN-SPAM. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the lawsuits today, charging a University of Texas student (and a cohort in California) with sending out millions of unsolicited commercial emails under the pseudonyms PayPerAction and Leadplex, among others. Spamhaus rates PayPerAction the #4 spammers in the world."
How to end Spam... (Score:4, Insightful)
Probably something stupid.
Re:Book em, Danno. (Score:3, Insightful)
How did this take so long to get detected? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:How to end Spam... (Score:5, Insightful)
1. They probably don't read their own email, if they have an email address. Their families probably do though, which leads to...
2. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite..."they probably already ARE!" I think it is fairly safe to assume that if you have an email address, you get spam. Period.
I think that they just have bigger fish to fry.
Re:Book em, Danno. (Score:2, Insightful)
Why is it when this college kid breaks a law (spam), Slashdot is ready to fire him out of a cannon, but when a different college kid breaks a different law (DMCA, DVD CSS, Apple trade secret lawsuits, insert other offense here), they rush to his defense?
I understand the whole "freedom of information" angle, but the law is still the law... until it is repealed and there is much rejoicing.
Besides, maybe this spam asshat was just trying to spread the freedom of v!agr@ and the lowest m0rtg@g3 rates!
(proceed to mod me into oblivion...