Telemarketers won -- but don't like the results (Score 1)

The DNC list isn't what brought down the telemarketing industry; it was the industry itself.

By all logic, the DNC list should have been an extraordinarily cheap way to vastly increase telemarketers' efficiency. Get rid of the 1/3 of their "marks" who were most animate about not receiving calls, and call the remaining 2/3. $8000 for the entire country and free for the first 5 area codes.

The problem is that the Federal Telemarketing Rule penalizes their clients, who are now also liable for telemarketers calling people who in the past asked to be left alone. The no identity issue was raised in 1997, on The Telemarketing Scum Page. While 3 states now have requirements that telemarketers identify themselves, the FTC gave up and gave telemarketers their wish and held the clients liable. This also nullifies immunity for off-shore operations.