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MySpace wins $234 million antispam judgment | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
Posted on: May 14, 2008
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The social-networking site MySpace has won a $234 million antispam judgment, according to the Associated Press.
On the losing side of the award–believed to be the largest ever under the 2003 Can-Spam Act–were defendants Walter Rines and Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king. MySpace won the case against Wallace after he failed numerous times to turn over documents or even to show up for court.
“MySpace has zero tolerance for those who attempt to act illegally on our site,” MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam told the AP. “We remain committed to punishing those who violate the law and try to harm our members.”
In March of last year, MySpace filed suit against Wallace alleging he launched a phishing scam to fraudulently access MySpace profiles. Wallace was also accused of spamming thousands of MySpace users with unwanted advertisements and luring them to his Web sites.
MySpace said Wallace and Rines sent 735,925 messages to MySpace members. Under Can-Spam, each violation entitles MySpace to $100 in damages, tripled when conducted “willfully and knowingly,” according to the report.
He has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies such as AOL and Concentric Network Corp. In May 2006, Wallace and his company Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to turn over $4,089,500.
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“(Reuters) – Armed robbers stole designer watches worth 700,000 pounds in simultaneous daytime raids on two upmarket department stores in Manchester on Wednesday, police said.
Two men carrying claw hammers smashed display cases at Selfridges, while a third filled a bag with watches worth 400,000 pounds.
At the same time, two men wearing motorcycle helmets attacked a security guard at the nearby Harvey Nichols store, broke cabinets with hammers and stole watches worth 300,000 pounds.
Both stores in the city’s Exchange Square shopping district were open at the time, but no customers were injured, police said.
The five men escaped in a stolen red Ford Transit van before switching to an unknown getaway car.
Detective Sergeant Dave Turner, of Greater Manchester Police, said: ‘This incident has left one man with minor injuries and a number of other people extremely distressed.”
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