ouch $1B has gotta hurt
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
Well it seems that the courts may be making progress against spammers Judge Awards $1 Billion in Spam Lawsuit. Of course there is no way that the plaintif will ever recover $1B from the spammers, but it is a good start. Yet the courts are a one step forward, one step back story. In the same week, a judge in MD declares that state’s spam law unconstitutional on the rounds that it tries to regulate interstate commerce (which is solely a federal job).