VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer

Re: Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer

satrap — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:43:37 -0000

It is so sad to see how spammers who are somewhat good at what they do, channel their creativity into spamming and not into something that could provide value both form them and for their hosts.

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insanity workout — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:41:02 -0000

Holy crap! $800 million seriuosly!

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acadapter — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:27:54 -0000

It honestly seems like every spam message has at least one instance of a comma not being followed by a space.

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Jermaine — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:03:49 -0000

WOW! That's a lot of money to receive in a lawsuit involving spam!

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make money on the internet — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:08:00 -0000

Spam will always be everywhere. spams are spams but not to be abused.

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Dave — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:04:50 -0000

Thankyou Eric this is an interesting story. Sooner or later his luck would run out.

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Ryan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:08:08 -0000

Great article Eric, I had never heard about the Myspace case, as well as the Facebook one. I wonder how much money they were both earning before the plug was finally pulled.:D

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Re: Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer

Andrew — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:36:18 -0000

Wasn't the Myspace judgement overturned?

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Surveys for cash — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:44:34 -0000

FB could share money it will get from this lawsuit for read all the spam FB users got :)

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Jermaine Pleas — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:23:57 -0000

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john_boesky — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:46:26 -0000

end of spam? not likely. the spammers already know they are doing something criminal so how would a judgement scare them.

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newsmarked — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:50:29 -0000

Man that is a lot of money

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Albert Fang — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:03:36 -0000

Spam will always be a thing that can't be stopped, like how every majority has a minority that will try to rule against the rules. Criminals and spam goes hand and hand, and with search engine's algorithm and such that involves spamming to getting to the top results, it is no surprise that webmasters are willing to go so far into spamming.

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Erik — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:45:10 -0000

LOL, thats purdy funny now aint it...

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jian — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:54:28 -0000

hahahaha

Re: Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer

AndyBeard — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:45:06 -0000

Myspace was also a default judgement

Here is another example, Disqus

Disqus are a great service and when I get back to blogging again I need to do a writeup on all the progress they have made.

However if this is a ruling that can affect case law in the future, then when you replied to my comment I received an email from a commercial blog, thus it might be interpretted as a commercial email.

The is no physical mailing address in the email
The preferences seem to be only global, so if I want to stop receiving email notifications from this post, or Venturebeat as a whole, I can't
I have to log in to change my preferences

Also of note for Facebook specifically, it might be might harder to defend against a class action based upon CAN SPAM the next time enough users get upset about zombie notifications.

How about blogs on Blogger and their relatively new comment notifications - often hit with spam even from the few Google blogs that have open comments.

This is why I would be horrified if this is looked on as a "real" citable judgement, as it opens up a can of worms.

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Eric Rosser Eldon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:40:31 -0000

AndyBeard, my understanding is that spam on social networks has been interpreted to fall under CAN SPAM -- first with the MySpace ruling and now with Facebook's.

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DDayDawg — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:06:44 -0000

The reason spammers can't spell well is that they aren't very bright. Smart people don't go into this line of work. It's the same reason criminals are usually complete idiots instead of the evil geniuses we see in movies.

Another reason is that many of them are not from the US and English is not their first language. But I think the fact that they are idiots is the main reason. I am reading a book (Daemon) where nearly a thousand spammers all over the world were killed on the same day. It made me smile.

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Dan S. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:10:34 -0000

Is this spam in an article about spam? Hilarious...

Re: Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer

AndyBeard — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:49:02 -0000

Look at section 41 of the complaint
http://docs.justia.com/case...

Facebook themeselves don't seem to comply with what they were complaining about.

CAN SPAM affects legitimate businesses, and not just "spammers" - in fact a huge proportion of "spam" is legally CAN SPAM compliant.

The original filing had 5 complaints - the first one was in relation to CAN SPAM - whether CAN SPAM applies to messaging on social networks and messaging systems is a big deal, especially if the social networks provide no provision to comply.
e.g. Try including a full mailing address in a tweet.. plus your message

Re: Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer

kenny — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:49:02 -0000

Spam will always live :)

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Eric Rosser Eldon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:51:34 -0000

hahaha!