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MySpace tells AP it has won $234M spam judgment
posted 6:03 pm Tue May 13, 2008 - NEW YORK
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The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $234 million judgment in Los Angeles over junk messages sent to its members.MySpace says it believes this is the largest award ever under the 2003 federal anti-spamming law known as CAN-SPAM. MySpace tells The Associated Press that the award was against two of the Internet's most prominent spam defendants, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines.
Wallace has earned the nickname "spam king" for his past role as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.
It's a big victory for MySpace, although service providers often have a tough time collecting such awards. The federal judge ruled in favor of the Web site, owned by News Corp., on Monday after Wallace and Rines failed to show up in court.
Wallace has earned the nickname "spam king" for his past role as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.
It's a big victory for MySpace, although service providers often have a tough time collecting such awards. The federal judge ruled in favor of the Web site, owned by News Corp., on Monday after Wallace and Rines failed to show up in court.
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