[Newsbot]

Title: Man fined $1B for sending Facebook spam
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-10-05 18:52:01
Canadian

[tritium]

YES!!!! Spammers take notice!!!

[Freakinoldguy]

Good luck collecting the fine facebook.

A giant fine like this may seem to be seen as a deterent to these twits, but the fact of the matter is that no one is ever going to collect it. So really the only thing that'll happen to him is that he can't open a facebook account and that's not a punishment it's a benefit.

Big freakin deal. He declares bankruptcy, facebook continues to violate every privacy act in the western world and nothing changes.

[PostFactum]

That's cruel

[Dragom]

In his bankruptcy he will loose most everything he has, won't he?

[Yogi]

Dragom Dragom:

In his bankruptcy he will loose most everything he has, won't he?

Not at all!

He will have to pay the Trustee a fee, Could be as high as a couple thousand. Then he will be assessed a 'realistic' token amount to pay. Could be as little as a couple thousand dollars, to several thousand dollars. That will be done via monthly payments IF he can't pay the 'lump sum'. Two years thereafter, having satisfied all the conditions set out by his trustee, and as accepted by the courts he will be given a 'discharge', and he is free and clear to start over with a 'clean slate'.

[The_Doctor]

Funny courts will fine one man for one billion yet corperations who let workers die because of bad safety conditions only get about 20-30 mill.

[Dragom]

The_Doctor The_Doctor:

Funny courts will fine one man for one billion yet corperations who let workers die because of bad safety conditions only get about 20-30 mill.

A human life is just a human life, but spam is spam.

[QBall]

Facebook will be lucky to collect enough from the guy to cover half their legal costs. Another case of judges acting like idiots. Why not make it $100 trillion?

[Yogi]

QBall QBall:

Facebook will be lucky to collect enough from the guy to cover half their legal costs. Another case of judges acting like idiots. Why not make it $100 trillion?

Obviously, the fine set out by the courts was symbolic. The real intention of the courts was to cause the idiot a lot of personal grief as well as serious financial hardship. This will go a long way towards discouraging other spammers.

[Brenda]

The guy had gotten a fine before for hacking FB. 800-something million.

[DrCaleb]

Dragom Dragom:

In his bankruptcy he will loose most everything he has, won't he?

What he did is a crime in the US, so bankruptcy won't help him there.

[tritium]

Yogi Yogi:

Dragom Dragom:

In his bankruptcy he will loose most everything he has, won't he?

Not at all!

He will have to pay the Trustee a fee, Could be as high as a couple thousand. Then he will be assessed a 'realistic' token amount to pay. Could be as little as a couple thousand dollars, to several thousand dollars. That will be done via monthly payments IF he can't pay the 'lump sum'. Two years thereafter, having satisfied all the conditions set out by his trustee, and as accepted by the courts he will be given a 'discharge', and he is free and clear to start over with a 'clean slate'.

Horse pucky.

Any assets like a car, home, boat is up for grabs. It will be well more that a couple of thousand dollars this guy loses.

Not to mention for the next 7 years his credit is shot.

All Credit Cards are closed. He will be screwed for a while.

[ASLplease]

If the guy is a productive member of the economy, then its relatively easy to collect. It the dead beats and corporations that dont always pay.

[raydan]

ASLplease ASLplease:

If the guy is a productive member of the economy, then its relatively easy to collect. It the dead beats and corporations that dont always pay.

Spammer AND "a productive member of the economy"...

...aren't those 2 mutually exclusive?