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Record fine for a spammer

Finally, MySpace won a major trial against spammers. Up to now, you will say, there is nothing really new; Spammers get repeated blows from the Judge these days. But there is something worth mentionning here: There is a record fine of no less than $234 millions. Even better, this is a known bad guy: Sanford Wallace (helped by Walter Rines) sent 700,000 messages on MySpace, but it was laredy condemned on several similar occasions that had allowed him being christened "Spam King".

Source: ArsTechnica.

 

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