Spammer Scott Levine Convicted

bani writes "Spammer Scott Levine was convicted of massive data theft from Acxiom Corporation. Prosecutors say his company, the now-defunct Snipermail.com, stole 1.6 billion customer records from Acxiom and sold the data. He faces a maximum of 640 years in prison under the law, though he will likely be sentenced to far less. One spammer down, several million to go?"

sentencing

[unfunk]

I can just imagine it now...

"You are hereby sentenced to 640 years in jail, with parole in nine months"

ah, the law is an ass..

Heh.

[James A. D. Joyce]

At first I thought the article title was referring to Levin, the founder of IRC network Freenode. He spams a lot too - he's constantly making wallop messages begging for cash to support the network because his lazy ass can't get a job.

Billy says...

[unfunk]

"640 years should be enough for anyone"

Prison rape isn't funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Unless it happens to a spammer.

Yes, global karmic payback can be a bitch. Have a nice life, future goatse.

POLL: what do you call 50 spammers in jail?

[Tomster]

1. A good start.
2. Not nearly enough.
3. What's wrong with a firing squad?
4. You mean those Pen1s En1argement Pi11s don't work???

Re:A real prison sentence.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or they could just make him send Pen1s Enlargement mails to the guy pounding his ass.

I'm sure that would be fun.

It has to be said...

[stubear]

...Information just wants to be free. He didn't steal the information, he just copied it and shared it.

Re:POLL: what do you call 50 spammers in jail?

[Anonymous Coward]

> 5. 50 cheap dates for "Bubba".

Yeah, but what the hell kind of atrocity did poor Bubba have to commit in order to deserve the punishment of having to ream out the bungholes of 50 spammers? :)

What about blind people?

[tepples]

I wonder if there is a way to change email, so before any email is passed on, there is some visual confermation that has to be entered by the sender.

Then the League for the Blind presses charges, you go to jail for violating the Rehabilitation Act and/or the Americans with Disabilities Act (or foreign counterparts), and once you're in prison, you get sexually assaulted by a blind man.

Re:The problem with computers

[HUADPE]

If you can steal a thousand people's credit card numbers and then use that information to commit fraud, you have committed a thousand crimes. If you can cause $100 billion in damage, then guess what, you're liable for the $100 billion. Fraud and theft are crimes, and the more people you steal from (regardless of the means), the more you get punished.

Re:640 years?

[Anne Thwacks]

Even so, you have to admit its very lenient. Personally, I think 640k years would be more aappropriate. I am sure the majority of /.ers would support my call for it to be raised to 640 life sentences.

Can we get his cellmate's

[www.sorehands.com]

Can we get his cellmate's names and addresses? I would like to send his cellmate's some penis enlargment pills and cialis softtabs.

Re:They should be lienient on him

[zaguar]

640 years ought to be enough jail time for anybody.

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