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04-10-2005, 02:53 PM
Jeremy Jaynes is apparently regretting the use of false domains to spam millions of computers, but he may be a pinch late, as the jury charged with the duty of evaluating his case has recommended a nine year jail sentence.
When he was convicted in November, Jaynes was considered one of the world's top 10 spammers. His sentence has been put on hold because the law on spamming is new, and the court will give the defense a chance to appeal the ruling.
According to Jaynes' attorney, nine years is too much. Getting past the feelings of burning revenge that every computer user gets when faced with a spam king, we believe that it would perhaps be best to set a good few hard-line examples for the rest of the spamming world. The toughest and most damaging names in the world of 'online marketing' are well known individuals who hide behind smug expressions and freedom of speech laws to continue perpetrating their scams.
Spam itself is possibly one of the dumbest, most absurd phenomena on the internet, where seven out of ten spam messages don't even try to sell anything or perpetrate any scam anymore, but simply serve as trojan and javascript probe carriers, turning from mild annoyances to malignant threats to a computer user's system. There should not be so much red tape around it, and we applaud the court ruling for providing such a strong reaction to one of the spam world's most prominent distributors.
When he was convicted in November, Jaynes was considered one of the world's top 10 spammers. His sentence has been put on hold because the law on spamming is new, and the court will give the defense a chance to appeal the ruling.
According to Jaynes' attorney, nine years is too much. Getting past the feelings of burning revenge that every computer user gets when faced with a spam king, we believe that it would perhaps be best to set a good few hard-line examples for the rest of the spamming world. The toughest and most damaging names in the world of 'online marketing' are well known individuals who hide behind smug expressions and freedom of speech laws to continue perpetrating their scams.
Spam itself is possibly one of the dumbest, most absurd phenomena on the internet, where seven out of ten spam messages don't even try to sell anything or perpetrate any scam anymore, but simply serve as trojan and javascript probe carriers, turning from mild annoyances to malignant threats to a computer user's system. There should not be so much red tape around it, and we applaud the court ruling for providing such a strong reaction to one of the spam world's most prominent distributors.