Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement 134
Panaqqa writes "In a not unexpected move, the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the $11 million awarded to e360 Insight and vacated a permanent injunction against Spamhaus requiring them to stop listing e360 Insight as a spammer. However, the ruling (PDF) does not set aside the default judgement, meaning that Spamhaus has still lost its opportunity to argue the case. The original judge could still impose a monetary judgement, after taking evidence from the spammer as to how much Spamhaus's block had cost them. This is unfortunate considering the legal leverage the recent ruling concerning spyware might have provided for Spamhaus."
Still don't get it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Still don't get it. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Oh yeah? (Score:4, Insightful)
-matthew
Woe be gone (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't get it (Score:4, Insightful)
In reverse, is the do-not-call list something that will be targeted next?
Re:Still don't get it. (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't see the problem with keeping a list. If it is a bad list with too many false positives, then nobody would use it. Sheesh.
Re:and DoubleClick (Score:3, Insightful)
"Hello Google, you sent x Gigabytes of data through our network to our customers, here's the bill for the bandwidth used..."
Re:Still don't get it. (Score:3, Insightful)
-matthew
Re:Still don't get it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh please, how many sites out there list "douchebag companies" and tell people not to buy from them? It is called free speech.
-matthew
Re:Still don't get it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Carl Sagan once sued Apple for calling him a "butt-head astronomer." Sagan lost the suit, because according to the judge:
I'm sure "douchebag companies" would fall into the same category.
Spamhaus' Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) is a list of "known professional spam operations that have been terminated by a minimum of 3 Internet Service Providers for spam offenses." That's a much more serious accusation than "butt-head" or "douchebag." If it's true, of course, then the plaintiffs can burn in hell... but they claim it's not true, and they've been falsely labeled by Spamhaus, which has damaged their reputation and cost them business.
The downside... (Score:0, Insightful)
God still might even punish you just for thinking up such wicked crap.
Jesus said that someone who commits murder in their heart or wishes death to someone is no different than someone who actually commits the real thing.
Re:Still don't get it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Most places that do background check pay some third party to do it. If that third party relied in whole or in part on the list in question, perhaps to fill gaps in other records, then, no, the background check would not reveal the list would be wrong, it would return the results of relying on the list.
Now, what would happen in the real world today is that the first person to find out they were flagged would file, and win, a rather substantial defamation lawsuit that would put the company running the list out of business, assuming that there wasn't a reasonable basis for them being listed on the list. But you seem to oppose the very laws that punish such lies.