MySpace Sues Spam King

Harry Maugans writes to mention a lawsuit filed by MySpace against Scott Richter, the 'Spam King'. Filed under California's harsh anti-spam laws, the suit alleges that Richter sent millions of unsolicited 'bulletins' to MySpace users over the past few years. From the article: "The suit is aiming for monetary damages and an injunction that would permanently ban Richter and his affiliates from MySpace. The amount of money sought by MySpace has not been disclosed. Richter was already ordered to pay $7 million in a 2003 lawsuit filed by Microsoft after initially refusing to settle the dispute for $100,000. Microsoft announced in 2005 that it would be using the money from the settlement to fuel further antispam operations."

IANAL

[mastershake_phd]

Filed under California's harsh anti-spam laws, the suit alleges that Richter sent millions of unsolicited 'bulletins' to MySpace users

Are bulletins considered emails? I would say no.

Re:Unfortunatly it is the only way to go.

[UbuntuDupe]

Well, you know how it is... government agencies lose their effectiveness the moment they would be useful: the SEC won't pursue pump-and-dump spam, the military won't go after real terrorists, police won't enter a school to stop a shooter until it's "safe" (!), NASA won't let rich people fund space exploration in exchange for tiny favors, INS won't investigate H1-B circumvention, the Department of Education won't investigate teachers' union corruption ...

did I miss anything?

I thought the "Spam King" was Sanford Wallace?

[Richard Steiner]

I know he's been gone for a long time, but it's weird to see these titles recycled. :-)

Re:He was on the Daily Show

[Tom]

That's not from last year, it's from 2004.

To think of it. This dude sends 100 mio. mails per day. And CAN-SPAM or not, they let him continue for over 2 years even after this. That's 73 billion mails. Spam-excusers say "it takes only 5 seconds to delete an unwanted mail". Following that we're talking 101 million hours here. I'll leave it to someone else to put that in terms of productivity and national economy.

Scott Richter - sole destroyer of the US economy. Hey, maybe we can get him under some terrorism law?

Spammers practically own myspace

[British]

I swear 50% of the accoutns on myspace are "spambot" accounts, usually using a hot chick for a picture. They are getting more and more advanced on trying to make the profiles look legit, by listing random bands in the music section, popular tv shows in tv shows, etc. Some even post blogger entries(typically with links to spam sites).On any time if you are "online" you'll get about 8-10 friend requests from them, recycling the same images.

Heck, they even ignore messages sent to them just like real myspace users. :)