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Four of seven Virginia Supreme Court judges uphold First-Amendment-violative criminal spam law.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Computer hard drive. (Image from Pacific Northwest Laboratory's website). All spammers' eyes should be on Virginia -- where a high percentage of computer crime cases are prosecuted, due to Virginia's housing such major computer servers as America Online's --  after its Supreme Court wrongfully upheld the state's criminal anti-spam law that prohibits sending out bulk e-mail that hide the identify of the sender.  Here is the text of Virginia's criminal spam statute:  "Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152.3:1  (2008)"§ 18.2-152.3:1.  Transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail (spam); penalty "   A. Any person who:"   1. Uses a computer or computer network with the intent to falsify or forge electronic mail transmission information or other routing information in any manner in connection with the transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail through or into the computer network of an electronic mail service provider or its subscribers; or"   2...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).