Another spammer gets nailed!
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Another spammer gets nailed!
by cavalierlwt » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:08 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4137352.stm
My only question is, does this guy have like hundreds of millions, so that 7 million is no big deal to him?
The ultimate solution to spam, I wish I thought of it myself. A company had an idea that was eventually a failure because they wanted to charge for it, but M$ could build it in for free.
The idea was that the company bought the rights to a poem, a very short one, like one line I guess. Basically you would have all your friends/family etc include this line (automatically?) in the email, maybe as a sig, I don't know. Then you would filter out emails that didn't have that line. The catch was, if a spammer used that poem to get the email through the filter, they got nailed for copyright infringement, which is very cut and dried in this case. You can see why it didn't work, too much effort.
But if M$ built it into Outlook as an option (to send and filter for a poem) including a EULA when you select the option saying email for non-business use only, using this for spam may result in copyright violations, it would be nearly universal, especially if they shared it with the other email suites.
If somone complained about received spam that made it through the 'poem filter' M$ could look at decide if it's spam, decide to maybe send a warning to the spammer if they like. If they get another complaint, then boom, M$ nails the company for the copyright infringement, which BTW allow for settlements based on number of instances of infringement. Imagine the courts rule $5 per infringement, and determine that the spammer sent out a million of the emails containing the poem. It's a weird loophole, but I think it could work.
My only question is, does this guy have like hundreds of millions, so that 7 million is no big deal to him?
The ultimate solution to spam, I wish I thought of it myself. A company had an idea that was eventually a failure because they wanted to charge for it, but M$ could build it in for free.
The idea was that the company bought the rights to a poem, a very short one, like one line I guess. Basically you would have all your friends/family etc include this line (automatically?) in the email, maybe as a sig, I don't know. Then you would filter out emails that didn't have that line. The catch was, if a spammer used that poem to get the email through the filter, they got nailed for copyright infringement, which is very cut and dried in this case. You can see why it didn't work, too much effort.
But if M$ built it into Outlook as an option (to send and filter for a poem) including a EULA when you select the option saying email for non-business use only, using this for spam may result in copyright violations, it would be nearly universal, especially if they shared it with the other email suites.
If somone complained about received spam that made it through the 'poem filter' M$ could look at decide if it's spam, decide to maybe send a warning to the spammer if they like. If they get another complaint, then boom, M$ nails the company for the copyright infringement, which BTW allow for settlements based on number of instances of infringement. Imagine the courts rule $5 per infringement, and determine that the spammer sent out a million of the emails containing the poem. It's a weird loophole, but I think it could work.
by Namloot » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:55 pm
"Mr Richter pledged he would now only send spam e-mails to people who had confirmed they were willing to receive them."
Uh huh
Uh huh
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