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Largest anti-spam award goes to MySpace, $230 million

By Jason Siegel

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Los Angeles-based MySpace.com won what may be the largest anti-spam award, $230 million, the Associated Press reported.

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines when the two, accused of sending 730,000 messages to MySpace members, failed to show up to a court hearing. The 2003 CAN-SPAM Act give $100 in damages per violation, tripled when done willfully and knowingly, the AP reported.

The AP story notes that Internet service providers have struggled to collect such awards.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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