Bwahahahaha! Spammer ordered to pay $11.2 BILLION!

[mhendo]

It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Link

Robert Kramer, the owner and operator of CIS Internet Services in Clinton, Iowa, has won an $11.2 billion judgment against a Miami-based spammer who sent millions of illegal e-mails advertising mortgage and debt-consolidation services, according to court documents.

<snip>

In the lawsuit, Kramer established that McCalla sent more than 280 million illegal spam e-mail messages into CIS’s computer network in 2003. In testimony for a November damages hearing, Kramer said that – based on mail server log entries – CIS could show the actual transmission of at least 8 million illegal e-mail messages. Under the Iowa statute in effect at the time the spam was sent, Kramer was entitled to $10 per illegal e-mail, he said.

It seems unlikely that Kramer will ever collect this huge sum, but hopefully it will at least put McCalla out of business, and hopefully even bankrupt the fucker.

[Seven]

<Nelson Muntz>

HA HA

</Nelson Muntz)

[magellan01]

Ahh, justice. One down, ?,??? to go.

[Tuckerfan]

Of course, merely being annoying on the net is now illegal.

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

[wolf_meister]

mhendo
Oh that is GREAT !!!

I’m just hoping that shithead McCalla can’t just fold up his “business” :rolleyes: move across the street and start up a brand new shit spam “service”. :mad:

[saoirse]

I love because it so… just.

I mean if a judge had said “I hate spammers. Make it $11.2 BILLION!” I would have had mixed feelings. I like the fact that it’s such a modest judgement.

“…And all it will cost you is ten dollars eaches.”

[duffer]

Every now and then I’m truly joyous. This is one of them.

[silenus]

Well, if we can’t tar and feather them, then this will have to suffice.

[Little_Nemo]

I expect emails any day now telling me I’m entitled to collect a share of this judgement and all I need to do is send a small legal fee.

[SolGrundy]

@mhendo

It seems unlikely that Kramer will ever collect this huge sum

That’s pretty cynical. According to the ruling, the award money has already been set up to be awarded. The only hitch is that it’s in a trust fund in Nigeria…

[Dunderman]

What’s the opposite of a miscarriage of justice? A piece of justice so flawlessly perfect that it transcends justice itself. I think we’re going to need a word for it.

[Mississippienne]

@Priceguy

What’s the opposite of a miscarriage of justice? A piece of justice so flawlessly perfect that it transcends justice itself. I think we’re going to need a word for it.

Immaculate conception of justice?

[Larry_Mudd]

@Priceguy

What’s the opposite of a miscarriage of justice? A piece of justice so flawlessly perfect that it transcends justice itself. I think we’re going to need a word for it.

Justice has been delivered, photographed beautifully for the album, slept through the night from the very first day, potty trained as soon as she could sit up, cut all of her teeth without so much as a peep, put herself through school with savings from summer jobs she started at age nine ( which never interfered with her chores at all,) went into business for herself at eighteen, moved out the same year, graced the cover of Fortune the next, and made an IPO at twenty which bought her parents a nice place in the Hamptons for their early retirement.

There isn’t a single word for it in English, but ask a German – he’ll be able to help you out.

[tdn]

@Larry Mudd

There isn’t a single word for it in English, but ask a German – he’ll be able to help you out.

Spammenstoppenvittensheiten.

[Revtim]

Not only was he fined but he was “prohibited from accessing the Internet for a period of three years”. I wonder what the penalities are if he violates this?

[Ponder_Stibbons]

What’s that funny tingle I feel?

I believe … I believe that’s the feeling of
justice.

[Revenant_Threshold]

@Ponder Stibbons

What’s that funny tingle I feel?

I believe … I believe that’s the feeling of
justice.

Ooooh. I got a shiver.

[Zebra]

@Ponder Stibbons

What’s that funny tingle I feel?

I believe … I believe that’s the feeling of
justice.

It could be the bird flu.

[duffer]

@Zebra

It could be the bird flu.

[Black Knight] It’s just a flesh wound! [/BK]

[Jackmannii]

"Bwahahahaha! Spammer ordered to pay $11.2 BILLION!"

And in protest, the spammer decides to pay his fine in pennies.