More lawsuits, this time really big names.

As previously noted, there was the first noted lawsuit relating to the CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing).

Now as seen on Yahoo (from Reuters), the big names are stepping up as well. AOL, Microsoft, EarthLink, and Yahoo are all entering the fray and suing spammers as well.

Spam takes up an enormous amount of resources (largely bandwidth, processor, and time) and so it is fairly obvious that an ISP will sue to recover the damages that they sustain either via spammers using their services to send out, or abusing the ISP's customers sending in.

The Washington Post also reports on this with more info. In this case, they are going after big individual spammers which is much better than the previous case against an online marketing agency.

Ideally from this we can hope to see a reduction in spam, but as of now I am skeptical how much it will deter spammers. I am certainly all for it if it works.

Posted by Eric at March 10, 2004 01:28 PM | TrackBack