Feds crash InterNext......

bump cuase it deserves some attention..i know somone who took it pretty hard

I don't understand your choice of thread title and link text.

What does this have to do with "crashing internext"?

Because at least one company got served at the convention on the floor.

yes, more than one

Amen..

I was there all 3 days from the time the doors opened, and I never saw the feds "crash" the show... Ok, so they showed up, and served some companies, that's far from crashing the party..

Anyway, nice post..

You mean a spammer? Good... the FTC is working on keeping my inbox clean

This is a real good post, I think everyone should see this, just in case someone has the bright idea of even thinking of messin around with spam!

im getting more spam than ever before. I hardly think they are doing any favors to surfers by "killing off spammers". It's all about money, thats the way it has been in this country for years.

pics of feds with guns?

The action specifically targeted so-called affiliate marketing practices, said Eileen Harrington, director of the FTC's Marketing Practices Division.ha Companies that use unwanted e-mails to market their firms frequently distance themselves from the practice by sub-contracting the work, often many times over. But Harrington said the CAN-SPAM Act, which took force last January, makes all firms that engage in affiliate marketing liable for the actions of their sub-contractors.

"There's a message here for anybody running an affiliate program; you need to monitor what the third parties are doing," she said. "If you are using a business model that recruits others, you are strictly liable for the practices of those third parties. It's not just the people who push the button. It's the business that provides the financial incentive. The law is clear and strict."

A federal district court has issued a temporary restraining order against the defendants, barring them from sending more spam and freezing their assets, pending a preliminary hearing.

The FTC said this was its sixth CAN-SPAM lawsuit, but the first involving pornography.

According to the FTC, the defendants spammed hundreds of thousands of consumers with sexually-explicit or sexually-suggestive e-mails. The FTC alleges that the defendants did not include the required ?SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:? warning in the subject line of the e-mails, or failed to exclude the sexually oriented material from the "initially-viewable" content of the messages.

Defendants in the complaint include: Global Net Solutions, based in Las Vegas, Nevada; Global Net Ventures, Ltd., based in London, England; Wedlake, Ltd, allegedly based in Riga, Latvia; Open Space Enterprises, Inc., based in Las Vegas; Southlake Group, Inc., based in Las Vegas; WTFRC, Inc., doing business as Reflected Networks, Inc., based in Las Vegas; Dustin Hamilton; Tobin Banks; Gregory Hamilton; Philip Doroff; and Paul Rose.

Sponsors Beware - Your affiliates can now fry your bacon

This is important enough to have it's own thread

The action specifically targeted so-called affiliate marketing practices, said Eileen Harrington, director of the FTC's Marketing Practices Division.ha Companies that use unwanted e-mails to market their firms frequently distance themselves from the practice by sub-contracting the work, often many times over. But Harrington said the CAN-SPAM Act, which took force last January, makes all firms that engage in affiliate marketing liable for the actions of their sub-contractors.

"There's a message here for anybody running an affiliate program; you need to monitor what the third parties are doing," she said. "If you are using a business model that recruits others, you are strictly liable for the practices of those third parties. It's not just the people who push the button. It's the business that provides the financial incentive. The law is clear and strict."

A federal district court has issued a temporary restraining order against the defendants, barring them from sending more spam and freezing their assets, pending a preliminary hearing.

The FTC said this was its sixth CAN-SPAM lawsuit, but the first involving pornography.

According to the FTC, the defendants spammed hundreds of thousands of consumers with sexually-explicit or sexually-suggestive e-mails. The FTC alleges that the defendants did not include the required ?SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:? warning in the subject line of the e-mails, or failed to exclude the sexually oriented material from the "initially-viewable" content of the messages.

Defendants in the complaint include: Global Net Solutions, based in Las Vegas, Nevada; Global Net Ventures, Ltd., based in London, England; Wedlake, Ltd, allegedly based in Riga, Latvia; Open Space Enterprises, Inc., based in Las Vegas; Southlake Group, Inc., based in Las Vegas; WTFRC, Inc., doing business as Reflected Networks, Inc., based in Las Vegas; Dustin Hamilton; Tobin Banks; Gregory Hamilton; Philip Doroff; and Paul Rose.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6812669/

That's the big issue right there.

I think anytime the goverment shows up at an adult convention to serve legal documents the term "Crashing" is prretty appropriate

Crashing gives the impression of swat teams with guns, teams of men in suits .

Didn't mention anything about that in the article. It makes more sense now.

BTW - not a troll post - just wondered.

That sounds like it'll be a lengthy investigation.

spammers should have their throats slashed

Wow, indeed an interesting read.

All your email are belong to me

Spammers got what was coming to them.

Fuck them.

If thats so, then there are a lot of people that has something coming to them.

Real Scary

WTFRC, Inc

how many people remember this Co name ??

It is very real. I'm still waiting for the first paysite to go down and out for 2257 compliance. That one will have an impact. Heard much louder than this one in my opinion.

They aren't fucking around any more..nailing the sponsors for what their affiliates do

I foresee a lot of sponsor checks being cut from banks in Costa Rica!

2 pronged attack. Watch webmasters scatter like roaches.

Unterresting reading for sure.

I think there is a solid over reaction here: We don't know how much spam was sent out, what the threshold was, and at what point action needs to be taken in an affiliate situation. Does a single spam once make the program liable? I think not.

Program owners need to step up to the plate and stop doing business with the spammers and scammers, and they will need to spend more time and money on looking through stats and looking for scammers.

I recommend all site owners spend some time in the newsgroups, check out the spam reports group for nice examples of people spamming your program.

I suspect this is going to put a few people out of business overnight.

Alex

interesting thread

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Does the porn industry seem like it is getting to be closer and closer to the way things were in Prohibition?