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So Jeremy Jaynes, of Raleigh, was sentenced for spamming. The guy allegedly made $24-million doing it according to the story: Spammer gets nine-year jail term. Well, that is as a result of his spamming "marketing" technique he made that kind of money. Spamming was not the revenue-generator: fraud and shady (read: porn and questionable schemes) products and services were what earned the money.
Here's the funny part: he got convicted not for the bad business, etc., but for using a false Internet address and alias. The relevant snip from the PC News story:
Although a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, Jaynes's trial took place in Loudon County, Virginia - the home of AOL. He was tried under State Law, which makes it an offence to use false internet addresses and aliases to send mass emails. James was convicted under this law of using the AOL servers to send the spoof emails.Huh? That's it? Seems like a back-door way of taking the guy down. Sort of like how Al Capone was finally "got." Too bad. In my view, it hasn't helped the situation much.
In a related story from today's San Jose Mercury-News, the headline says it all: "Spam hatred subsides -- it's just part of life". It quotes a Pew Internet & American Life Project study that found an interesting paradox: people are still getting more spam, but it's not bothering them as much.
Hmmmm......
Posted by Grayson at April 11, 2005 07:44 AM