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Ever hear of Kevin Mitnick? He's been in jail for three (3) years now without trial.
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
Michael S. Lorrey [retroman@together.net] wrote:
>Sending email which claims to promote one kind of website when it
actually is
>linked to another type is also mail and wire fraud.
The mail and wire fraud laws are very, very good examples of why
spamming
laws are a really bad idea. Just take a look sometime at the numerous
cases
where these laws are used for things they were never intended to
cover; back
when I kept up with the hacking press, it seemed that practically
every US
hacker caught was charged with wire fraud with its high penalties,
even
though the crime was never intended to apply to hacking.
>If a spammer can be charged for every one of the thousands or
millions
>of spam messages they send, then they will be spending a lot of time
in
>prison (probably more than their entire adult life) and paying
whopping
>fines.
Oh get real. Late time I checked the average murderer spent about
eight
years in jail; you want to put spammers in jail for longer than
murderers!?
Do you have any idea how much these kind of laws are screwing up the
US
legal system? Next time someone's accused of spamming they'll just
come
out shooting, because they'll have nothing to lose...
This list is really going downhill.
Mark
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