I was reading over the FTC?s website about this spam crap that recently took place. What I found was mind blowing. This isn?t a bash against the companies that settled but it is fucked up. They agreed to some very fucked up terms. Companies that settled are: (BangBros.com Inc, RK NetMedia Inc, Ox Ideas, Inc) (MD Media) (APC Entertainment Inc)(Pure Marketing Solutions LLC) (Internet Matrix Technology )
You can read it yourself: Go to July 20th.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2005/07/index.htm#20
Read the Stipulated Order ? Sections 4 & 5
Here is just a cut of a few things they must provide:
?A list that identifies every person who is marketing or promoting, through
commercial email messages, any goods or services of a Defendant since
entry of this Order;? ? U.S. mailers you are fucked, complaint or not.
?Accounting records that reflect revenue generated by sales to individuals
through an affiliate program and corresponding disbursements to participants
Defendant?s affiliate program on an individual basis, including copies
recently deposited check for each such participant paid by check;? ? The rest of us.
You should read everything they have to give up. And you should thank the companies that said NO to these agreements: (T.J. Web Productions LLC) (Cyberheat Inc.) (Impulse Media Group)
So the GOV can?t get a list of people to bust for 2257 because of the FSC, but now they have a list, a rather large list.
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Some info about spam and MicroShit?s BS company..
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"Microsoft provided help with the FTC's investigation upon the agency's request, said Microsoft attorney Aaron Kornblum. It offered evidence and analysis of e-mails received in more than 130,000 free Hotmail accounts set up several years ago as "traps," he said."
?The traps have been in place since 2003?
?The company has also filed more than 100 lawsuits against spammers and 119 against so-called phishers?
?Kornblum said Microsoft's 12 full-time Internet-safety attorneys, investigators and paralegals first collect evidence?
You can read it yourself: Go to July 20th.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2005/07/index.htm#20
Read the Stipulated Order ? Sections 4 & 5
Here is just a cut of a few things they must provide:
?A list that identifies every person who is marketing or promoting, through
commercial email messages, any goods or services of a Defendant since
entry of this Order;? ? U.S. mailers you are fucked, complaint or not.
?Accounting records that reflect revenue generated by sales to individuals
through an affiliate program and corresponding disbursements to participants
Defendant?s affiliate program on an individual basis, including copies
recently deposited check for each such participant paid by check;? ? The rest of us.
You should read everything they have to give up. And you should thank the companies that said NO to these agreements: (T.J. Web Productions LLC) (Cyberheat Inc.) (Impulse Media Group)
So the GOV can?t get a list of people to bust for 2257 because of the FSC, but now they have a list, a rather large list.
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Some info about spam and MicroShit?s BS company..
Paragaph Cuts From This Article By NWSource
"Microsoft provided help with the FTC's investigation upon the agency's request, said Microsoft attorney Aaron Kornblum. It offered evidence and analysis of e-mails received in more than 130,000 free Hotmail accounts set up several years ago as "traps," he said."
?The traps have been in place since 2003?
?The company has also filed more than 100 lawsuits against spammers and 119 against so-called phishers?
?Kornblum said Microsoft's 12 full-time Internet-safety attorneys, investigators and paralegals first collect evidence?
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