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White Collar Crime Prof Blog
PING: Friday News RoundupURL: http://www.acsblog.org/news-and-announcements-2498-friday-news-roundup.htmlIP: 66.36.242.244BLOG NAME: ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution SocietyDATE: 01/20/2006 08:15:40 AMThe White Collar Crime Prof Blog notes that the first person ever to have been charged under the Can-Spam act has pleaded guilty to three felonies. Daniel Lin was convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of spam emails for Viagra,…
By Ellen Podgor
The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced the first conviction under the CAN-SPAM Act [Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing] Act of 2003. …
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Google responds on Blogger spam blogs
Mark Cuban, backer of Ice Rocket, a blog search engine - aggregator (more on that in next post), reports Google has responded to his and others' complaints that Google was…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Google responding to splog (spam blog) problem
Chris Pirillo reports he received a message from a Google staffer last night that he had brought up Chris's earlier complaint and that Google is going to do something shortly.…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Google’s Blogger Blogs causing big spam problems
Mark Cuban posts Google Get Your Blogspot Shit Together. Chris Pirillo says Kill Blogspot Already!!! What's going on? Google gives away free Blogger blogs hosted at the blogspot domain. Because…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Spamming Indictment
By Ellen Podgor
DOJ has decided to stop individuals who are spamming - especially ones that send out unwanted pornographic emails. In a press release here DOJ tells of its recent indictment of…
Media Law Prof Blog
Microsoft, Spammer Settle
Scott Richter, the head of OptInRealBig.com, has agreed to pay Microsoft seven million dollars to settle a lawsuit over spam the software giant claims Richter has been spewing into emailboxes.…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Nine Years in Prison for Spamming
By Ellen Podgor
The headline is correct! A court just sentenced a spammer to nine years in "the U.S.'s first felony prosecution for sending junk e-mail." But the defendant is not quite headed…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Never Too Young to Spam
By Ellen Podgor
Anthony Greco, who is 18, entered a guilty plea today in Los Angeles to making extortionate threats against an internet instant messaging company, MySpace.com, if it did not give him…
DennisKennedy.Blog
By Request Tuesday – My Favorite Question of the Week that I'm Not Answering
How useful is email?
DennisKennedy.Blog
By Request Tuesday – My Favorite Question of the Week that I’m Not Answering
How useful is email?