Comments on: MySpace Wins Largest Anti-Spam Award in History

By: Will

Will — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:10:31 +0000

well, now is the time to stop the spam, I totally agree with the judge and I hope this is a message for others!
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[...] lesz. Az összeg rekordnak számít, megelőzve azt a 234 millió dollárt, melyet idén májusban ítéltek meg a MySpace-nek egy hasonló [...]

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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:28:38 +0000

[...] act. (Ruling embedded below). It is the largest award under the act ever granted, topping the $234 million award MySpace won against spammers last May. [...]

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Bad News For Facebook « Online Outreach for NonProfits and Foundations — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:48:50 +0000

[...] spammers pushing Macy’s giftcards. The problem even got so bad that they ended up collecting over $200 million in statutory damages from two of the responsible spammers. Personally, I stopped using Myspace [...]

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1337hax0r.com » Morning coffee linkflood — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:56:25 +0000

[...] This is surely a joke. It has to be a joke. I never even GO to my Myspace, and I still get spam. [...]

By: Myspace bekommt 230 Millionen USD Spam-Entschädigung

Myspace bekommt 230 Millionen USD Spam-Entschädigung — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:44:18 +0000

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links for 2008-05-14 at iSingers — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:37:16 +0000

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The Trend Junkie » Blog Archive » links for 2008-05-14 — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:35:33 +0000

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By: Patrick Jones

Patrick Jones — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:49:16 +0000

IAW Andy Wong and Ryan Merket…

Also, yes…

This is very funny coming from myspace considering their “humble” spam and junk mail beginnings.

Yeah, they are hypocrites considering they themselves went over to friendster.com to spam the users all to get the friendster.com users to come over to myspace.com.

MySpace should quit acting like such a victim. Instead, they should do a better job about protecting their users.

By: Deliverability.com

Deliverability.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:48:16 +0000

Myspace awarded $233 million dollars under CAN-SPAM…

Myspace was awarded $233 million dollars in a suit against Sanford Wallace under the CAN-SPAM Act and California anti-phishing law. This is the biggest win so far under CAN-SPAM and puts some more teeth behind it. What’s interesting is that…

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:58:13 +0000

What’s the point of this article if myspace aren’t even going to collect the money? The spammers get away scott free yet again

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:44 +0000

That’s great news, finally the spam monsters are getting a taste of their own medicine.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » MySpaceがスパム行為訴訟史上最高額の損害賠償を獲得 — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:24:30 +0000

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By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:05:12 +0000

And what happens with the money? I heard rumors that they gonna split the money between MySpace members. Every unique MySpace member gets some money. So 234 million usd / 100,000 real-unique-members… (just signed up for a myspace account)

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:46:35 +0000

Lol, at least we know Scott won’t get away. He runs cpaempire.com.

By: ineedhits online advertising

ineedhits online advertising — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:58:29 +0000

I like your idea Carsten. According to the Sanford Wallace wikipedia page…

“As of March 2007, he is currently a DJ in Las Vegas, making weekly appearances at OPM nightclub (name changed to ‘Poetry Nightclub’ October 5, 2007) in Caesars Palace Forum Shops on the Las Vegas Strip under the name DJ Master Web.”

Might be a good place to start?

By: sd

sd — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:34:02 +0000

so it is time to sue myspace yourself for getting spams thru them.

sue myspace now~ since they got their money now.

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垃圾邮件大王被判赔偿Myspace近2.34亿美元 | SilenceWolf — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02:00 +0000

[...] law. This is also the first time damages have been awarded under the California Anti Phishing Act. Read more. addthis_url = [...]

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:57:42 +0000

Also, News Corp, it was not MySpace getting the spams, but the users of MySpace getting the spams.

The award of $234 million in statutory damages should go to those users who got damaged, right? MySpace was responsible for protecting those users from spamming, right? And MySpace did not do it well.

News Corp/MySpace, don’t you think you have obligation to pay those users in advance?

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:50:23 +0000

Spammers, please, send me some spams, $300 each.

Where are u?

News corp, please, I will become your bounty hunter to collect the heads of those spammers. 1 million, half advance, half delivery.

R u listening?

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Wed, 14 May 2008 02:33:20 +0000

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By: sqylogin

sqylogin — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:47:34 +0000

Nice numbers, but rather symbolic from the looks of it. Doubt they’ll get a dime from this.

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:20:04 +0000

Okay, what happens next, the two spammers didn’t show up and I guess they did not leave an address where MySpace can send their invoice to, right? Is it now up to News Corp. how to find the guys and demand payment? What if they are caught and cannot pay the fine? Are they not convicted to serve some time in prison?

It would be cool, if News Corp would announce that they pay a bonus for any tips that will lead to the capture of the two. Let’s say a million bucks. Every head hunter in the country will be looking for them and their spammer friends might think about to sell out and betray their former “buddies”. Money drives those folks, not ethics.

Even if the guys do not even have a million bucks to pay the fine (and News Corp the bonus), News Corp would not go broke paying the bonus regardless if they get it back from the spammers or not. It would be great PR, get their names on TV and Newspapers and the Web everywhere and people would applaud them for doing this.

It also sends out a message to spammers that will make feel cold fear going down their spine and shiver one or the other might re-considers what he is doing and decides that the money is not worth the risk having an angry mob hunting you down no matter where you go.

By: VC$

VC$ — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:06:11 +0000

Now, is this judgment so large and harsh because of the fact that hacked accounts were used, or that they were sending messages to other users? I’m confused on what can be considered spam on an application that encourages other users to send messages to other users without specific intent. When you have a big flashy button that says “Message ME!” I would assume anything goes.

By: Jim L

Jim L — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:01:51 +0000

I hate spammers, I hope they get the death penalty after they pay up.

Jim