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Home 19 Aug 2007 Spamford Wallace gets sued yet again Email If there were a lifetime achievement award for losing lawsuits for being annoying, Sanford Wallace would be a shoo-in. Fifteen years ago, his junk faxing was a major impetus for the TCPA, the law outlawing junk faxes. Later in the 1990s, his Cyber Promotions set important legal precedents about spam in cases where he lost to Compuserve and AOL. Two years ago, he lost a suit to FTC who sued his Smartbot.net for stuffing spyware onto people's computers. And now, lest anyone think that he's run out of bad ideas, he's back, on the receiving end of a lawsuit from MySpace. See more ... posted at: 22:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spamford.trackback

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