Comments on: Facebook awarded $873 million in lawsuit against spammer

By: cfhfh

cfhfh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:07:39 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:36:18 +0000

Wasn't the Myspace judgement overturned?

By: edhardy622

edhardy622 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:14:48 +0000

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By: Mike @ Online Surveys

Mike @ Online Surveys — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:44:34 +0000

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

By: Jay @ work at home

Jay @ work at home — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:23:57 +0000

That's pretty big for a spam case. Wow! That's pretty BIG!

By: john_boesky

john_boesky — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:46:26 +0000

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

http://www.johnboesky.com

By: newsmarked

newsmarked — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:50:29 +0000

Man that is a lot of money

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:03:36 +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.

Albert
http://www.mooladays.com

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:45:10 +0000

LOL, thats purdy funny now aint it…

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Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Turkey blogging ‘08 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:08:55 +0000

[...] Die Spammer die. May you all go to hell! [...]

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chaka chaka - quickbites2711 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:08:51 +0000

[...] facebook spammer coughs up [i'm sure at least one of you has gotten the "bud" spam] [...]

By: jian

jian — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:54:28 +0000

hahahaha

By: Facebook Awarded $873 Million In Damages From Spammer | WildBlueSkies - Trends and strategies in Digital Media

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:30:14 +0000

[...] information in the subject or header sections of marketing emails. However, as Facebook wrote to VentureBeat, this judgement in all probability is more likely to serve as a deterrent than result in a [...]

By: Facebook awarded £400 million : Webmaster Roadmap

Facebook awarded £400 million : Webmaster Roadmap — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:13:40 +0000

[...] Source [Venture Beat] Filed Under Business, Communities, Email, Spam [...]

By: AndyBeard

AndyBeard — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:45:06 +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.