Spammer Sued
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- sexypixel
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2…
This is all well and good but I don't understand how Earthlink, and ISP, has the right to sue a spammer, surely spam only increases business for an ISP, and surely it is the customers of the ISP who are suffering, so why does the ISP get the money?
confused
- corin0
i guess because they are the ones who sued him, i wonder if an individual could afford to do the same. To be honest though, spamming wouldn't do much good for the ISP, it would slow down their entire service I imagine, and they fact that they had used stolen credit cards wouldn't have made too much profit for the isp at all. The figure is quite staggering though, i wonder how they intend to extract that kind of money out of an individual.
- sexypixel0
they should auction individual whippings of the individual on ebay. I'd pay for one, and i'd bring my trusty hawthorn whipping stick.
But wouldnt spam increease trafiic, and upload and download fees for customers?
- quamb0
aparently isp's hate spam as it clogs up their servers, disk space, bandwidth etc.
some isp's can also get hit pretty bad by spam- hence have unhappy customers.
- kpl0
it could increase customer fees. if you look at the basic supply and demand model, you could say spam raises the supply curve. they can pass the addl. costs to the customer. but that will cause some customers to leave. and in the end they could end up with less revenues and profits overall because of the smaller customer base. Or... keep the customers by not changing fees and lose out on the costs of transmission and storage.
I assume that is where the damages occured in the suit. that, and good ol. punitive damages.
- sexypixel0
ok, thanks guys.
- sonke0
because traffic costs ISP's a lot of cash... many good ones don't have limits for their users...
If a user at an ISP gets say 100 spam mails per day, that will generate a noticable amount of unwanted traffic...
- sexypixel0
Im trying to think of reasons for me to sue them
- quamb0
*ugh* my isp email account gets around 20+ spam emails a day from korea...
every week or so i have to wade through and delete 100+ emails!
this in effect, interupts me from working, making money AND forced the use of a new email address...
basis to sue? sue sue sue!
- kpl0
"Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, ISPs can use the criminal statute to go after people whom they believe are sending unsolicited commercial e-mail via their networks, provided that the ISPs have a policy that prohibits sending spam."
from http://www.businessweek.com/tech…
so... unless au passes a law that will allow users to sue, you probably can't. I believe washington state has a law on their books that will let you do so, so you can move to seattle then sue. yeah its far. but it's a nice city.
- corin0
I once read an article about some guy who mailed back a spammer with a notice that he would be charging an administration fee for every piece of spam he recieved from that point on. The spams stopped after a week or so and he got a check in the mail... that was along time ago though and i imagine the spammers are much trickier to find now