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Home 16 May 2008 Wow, Sanford Wallace Owes a Lot of Money Email Last September MySpace sued ur-spammers Sanford "Spamford" Wallace and Walt "Pickle Jar" Rines for egregious violations of CAN SPAM. After some early skirmishes involving an expert for Wallace so unqualified that the judge threw out his testimony, Wallace and Rines stopped responding, so as was widely reported, earlier this week the court granted a default judgement. Since they sent a lot of spam, the statutory damages came to an enormous $235 million. Even for Spamford, that's a lot of money. See more ... posted at: 01:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spamford2.trackback

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