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galaga If only million dollar victories in court mattered to most spammers. The hit against the major host a little bit ago helped, but I don't think legal victories like this one do much.
Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $873,277,200
TG Daily - All News —
... setting up phishing websites to acquire Facebook logins and email addresses and sending more than 4 million emails to Facebooks members. Those numbers translate into a cost of about $218. Max Kelly, Facebook's director of security, said that the company does not expect that it will be able to quickly collect the funds. It's unlikely that Geurbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them (though we will certainly collect everything we can), he wrote in a blog post. But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent ...
Marketing Tactics: Facebook Wins $873 Million Judgment in Spam Case
Inside Facebook —
... or indirectly, Facebook’s data, information, computers, computer systems, computer networks, or Facebook user’s accounts, information or profiles for any reason whatsoever.”
While it’s unlikely that Facebook will ever collect the vast majority of this judgment, it does send a loud message to Facebook spammers: Facebook is willing to pursue those abusing its service.
Update: From Facebook:
Does Facebook expect to quickly collect $873 million and share the proceeds ...
Facebook Awarded Record $873 Million in Spam Suit
Wired: Epicenter —
... “Does Facebook expect to quickly collect $873 million and share the proceeds in some way with our users? Alas, no,” writes director of Security Max Kelly on Facebook's blo ...
Facebook Wins $873 Million Judgment Against Spammer
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... operation. "We've all experienced spam -- those unwanted and, sometimes, inappropriate marketing messages," said Facebook director of security Max Kelly and deputy general counsel Mark Howitson in an e-mailed statement . "The bad guys behind those messages are always looking to find new ways to annoy people and Facebook's users have been among those targeted. We don't take this affront to our users lying down." U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel handed down the award last week following four months of litigation. In addition to the monetary judgment, the ruling prohibits ...
Facebook Wins Huge Judgment In Spam Suit
WebProNews Feed —
... Record $873 million CAN-SPAM case"You win some, you lose some" may well be Facebook's unofficial motto. Even as word spread this morning that the company had tried and failed to acquire Twitter, there's fresh news that a spam lawsuit led to it being awarded over $873 million in damages. Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital violated the CAN-SPAM Act, and should pay Facebook the huge sum as a result. Court costs may get tossed in, too. On the Facebook Blog , Max Kelly, the company's directory of security, responded by saying, "It's unlikely ...
Facebook Wins Massive $873M Spam Judgment
AppScout —
... "Does Facebook expect to quickly collect $873 million and share the proceeds in some way with our users? Alas, no. It's unlikely that Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them--though we will certainly collect everything we can," Max Kelly, Facebook's director of security, wrote in a Monday blog post. "But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users." ...
Court Awards Facebook $873M in Spam Case: Is This Really Gonna Help?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... Does Facebook think they are actually going to get $873 million? Apparently not. Max Kelly, Facebook’s head of security wrote on the Facebook blog, ...
Facebook Spammer Slapped With $873M CAN-SPAM Fine
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... ads for marijuana, male enhancement and assorted sexual propositions. The $873 million awarded by Judge Jeremy Fogel is nearly triple Facebook's estimated revenues for 2008. Facebook, famously valued at more than $15 billion by Microsoft in 2007 despite revenues at the time of about 1 percent of that figure, does not expect to collect the settlement in full, admitted the company's director of security in a blog post Monday. "Does Facebook expect to quickly collect $873 million and share the proceeds in some way with our users? Alas, no. It's unlikely that Guerbuez and ...
Legal Watch: Prosecution Over Online Suicide?; Facebook Wins $873 Million Verdict Against Spammer
paidContent —
... -- Facebook gets $873 million judgment in spam case: It's not exactly money in the bank but Facebook could score major PR points for its aggressive efforts to stop spammers from misusing the social network. A federal judge in California awarded the company $873 million against a Canadian man, Adam Guerbuez, and Atlantis Blue Capital for "sleazy" unwanted messages to Facebook users, according to Max Kelly, director of security for Facebook. Kelly blogged about the court win: "Does Facebook expect to quickly collect $873 million and ...
