Comment Re:Losing battle? (Score 1) 244
They're fighting a losing battle?
I dont think so. These kind of court cases need to happen MORE often. Which of the following situations would make you think twice about sending out your OWN 3 metric tons of spam:
a) no successful lawsuits against spammers.
b) 150 successful lawsuits totalling $4 million in the last 4 months against spammers.
I think people need to sue the hell out of spammers. Whats their motivation to stop? If nobody is willing to actually hurt them in a way that makes them want to stop, they wont.
Cancel their account at their ISP? ooooh, no. Now they have to make a phone call and sign up with the ISP across the street.
Sue them for $1.5 million? Even if you lose the case, its damn likely they'll reconsider before doing it again.
The problem is, a lot of laws have gotten soft.
Freedom of speech does not give anyone the right to invade my freedom of privacy. If I dont want to hear about their great new offer of prOn or printers or paper, I shouldn't have to.. but the way its becoming, its becoming almost impossible to get an email account ANYWHERE without getting at lest a little spam every day. Quite sad.
Do nothing, and it will not get better, it will only get worse. How would you like HAVING to install a custom email filter that sorted out names you knew from your inbox and dumped the rest of the mail in the trash, because you received 400 spams and 3 real emails. I can see that happening not too far in the future..
I dont think so. These kind of court cases need to happen MORE often. Which of the following situations would make you think twice about sending out your OWN 3 metric tons of spam:
a) no successful lawsuits against spammers.
b) 150 successful lawsuits totalling $4 million in the last 4 months against spammers.
I think people need to sue the hell out of spammers. Whats their motivation to stop? If nobody is willing to actually hurt them in a way that makes them want to stop, they wont.
Cancel their account at their ISP? ooooh, no. Now they have to make a phone call and sign up with the ISP across the street.
Sue them for $1.5 million? Even if you lose the case, its damn likely they'll reconsider before doing it again.
The problem is, a lot of laws have gotten soft.
Freedom of speech does not give anyone the right to invade my freedom of privacy. If I dont want to hear about their great new offer of prOn or printers or paper, I shouldn't have to.. but the way its becoming, its becoming almost impossible to get an email account ANYWHERE without getting at lest a little spam every day. Quite sad.
Do nothing, and it will not get better, it will only get worse. How would you like HAVING to install a custom email filter that sorted out names you knew from your inbox and dumped the rest of the mail in the trash, because you received 400 spams and 3 real emails. I can see that happening not too far in the future..
