Microsoft Sues 200 Spammers (news)
 

Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits in the US against nearly 200 accused spammers, saying that the defendants had used false information to conceal themselves, and had deceived consumers. Each of the lawsuits "names" at least 20 unidentified defendants, as well as one John Hites, identified by anti-spam campaigners at Spamhaus as one of the world's ten most prolific spammers.

Microsoft is seeking injunctions against each defendant, using the CAN-Spam act, and could be awarded up to $1m per spammer in civil fines. THe company said it hopes to unmask the anonymous spammers through the legal discovery process.


Microsoft filed its first suits against unsolicited mailers in June last year (2003), and is now involved in more than 80 such cases around the world. So far, its legal actions have resulted in four settlements, two defendants being declared bankrupt and five judgments for Microsoft.

"We're raising the stakes, we're making it more expensive for spammers," Tim Cranton, a senior lawyer at Microsoft said. "A lot of the established spammers are realizing that it's much harder to operate."

Although any efforts made in the fight against spammers are to be applauded, anyone with an e-mail account will testify that the effect on the amount of spam arriving in inboxes has been zero. Frank Gorman, former legal counsel for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, told The Washington Times: "It's not going to make an impact by itself, but you have to approach it from every angle."

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I will file a lawsuit against Microsoft.

My claim?

With each copy of the windows 'operating system':

"Microsoft has used false information to conceal themselves, and had deceived consumers."

good idea
i hope you have alot of money

yea man for real who has the money to even try and bring microsoft up on any charges lol bill gates owns everyone

He bought himself out of the anti trust case in the US, wonder if he can do that in the EU.

As for spammers nothing but paying for emails will stop them. Yet to hear one other solution that would work.

You better have a billion to invest in lawyers :)

awesome :thumbsup

your red X sig is killer :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Good. I can't wait to see the known spammers on this board lose everything to Microsoft.

:glugglug

his sig alone is about 850k.

thank god i have cable.

so they are sueing 200 spamers but they don't know who they are? Is that what that says?

well, microsoft sues some people.. spammers.. that's ok, but what about microsoft OS problems and risk for users?...

Samuel

" it hopes to unmask the anonymous spammers through the legal discovery process"

im guesing they have a few spammers and they're probably settling for something lower giving up names type deal idunno who knows microsoft probably has them shaking right now lol

they got me :(