MetaFilter posts tagged with spam and law

Greek police "spam arrest" ongoing muddle

hank — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:14:30 -0800

Register article on Greek arrest of well known programmer I'ved been watching this story since it surfaced at the rixstep.com page here and here; also covered at Techdirt.com in a couple of threads. Worth a look.

First Anti-Spam Lawsuits filed by 4 Net Bigs

mcgraw — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:25:57 -0800

Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, Yahoo sue hundreds in six lawsuits More here (registration req'd). Nation's largest spammers targeted in first lawsuits under Congressional Anti-Spam Legislation.

Spam, Spam, Spam

MintSauce — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:26:29 -0800

Italian spammers face jail. The ruling follows estimates by the European Commission that spam e-mails cost EU companies approximately 2.25bn euros in lost productivity last year.

timeistight — Thu, 16 May 2002 01:21:23 -0800

Judge orders VeriSign to stop ad campaign A U.S. court on Tuesday ordered Internet naming giant VeriSign Inc. to immediately cease a direct-mail campaign that used what a rival called deceptive advertising to poach its customers. A development in an earlier posted story.

ParisParamus — Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:15:25 -0800

What Would This Do To the 'Net? Would such legislation be Constitutional?

mathowie — Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:18:07 -0800

The Washington State Anti-Spam law found unconstitutional because the person named in the suit was in Oregon, and the law can't be enforced across state boundries. Damn. As if your location means anything on the internet. What a lame ruling.