[pchelpers] News:Spammers Are Due For A Surprise

Security 
April 27, 2007

By Andy Patrizio 


Some of the worst spammers in the United States could be in for a rude
surprise shortly, as Unspam Technologies has taken the first steps in
tracking them down, with help from the ISPs. 

The company filed a lawsuit yesterday in the Eastern District of
Virginia seeking the identities of spammers under the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act
and the state of Virginia's own anti-spam statue. The suit seeks damages
that could potentially reach $1 billion, but Unspam said it would be
happy with driving spammers out of business. 

The idea of suing spammers may seem as ludicrous as suing God; where do
you deliver the subpoena? But Jon Praed, the lawyer on the case,
founding partner of the Internet Law Group and one of the top lawyers
involved in spam suits, said not to think that way. 

"We cannot fight them by treating them as if they are everywhere,
because it lulls us into a false acceptance of the inevitability of the
outcome," he told internetnews.com. "If we focus on what they are using
or make it hard to use those tools, we're going to beat them. We are not
fighting Acts of God, we are fighting criminal acts." 

More here:
http://news.earthweb.com/security/article.php/3674731
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