Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

its just plain retarded. spammers are facing bigger sentences than murderers, child molesters and just about every other vermin on earth. why? its either because the law doesn't know how to deal with it so they figure if they scare a few people it will stop (which will never work). or because the big corps who want to be the only ones profiting off spam (MS, AOL, ect) have the law in the backpocket getting rid of the competition. the people making these laws and sentences are totally out of touch with the online world.