Italian spammers face jail

[edesignuk]

From BBC Article:
Senders of unsolicited junk e-mails in Italy will now face jail sentences of up to three years, according to Italian media reports.

The country's privacy watchdog issued the ruling in an attempt to limit the huge amount of advertising and promotional material sent online.

Sending e-mails without the permission of the receiver is against the law in Italy.

Offenders now risk fines of up to 90,000 euros and between six months and three years in prison, if it is proved that they did it to make a profit.

The ruling follows estimates by the European Commission that spam e-mails cost EU companies approximately 2.25bn euros in lost productivity last year.

Full Article.

Good for them, now the rest of the world needs to *try* and take the same stand against the never ending rows of crap spam mail that arive in peoples mail boxes every day.

 

[rainman::|:|]

normally i'm against the death penalty.

but...

 

[topicolo]

Good for Italy! Fines and jail sentences are a good first step, but the final goal should be castration and a physical beating by 5 rabid midgets.

 

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by topicolo
Good for Italy! Fines and jail sentences are a good first step, but the final goal should be castration and a physical beating by 5 rabid midgets.

LMAO! That would be great, and I'm sure it would put more people off than just a fine or even jail time!

 

[cb911]

what?! castration &... eewwwwww!

yeah, there's alot of scammers working out of Italy, or at least they say they are, but i wouldn't really take their word for it.

if it helps stop spam, and people trying to sell you a 17" PowerBook and a 23" Cinema Display for USD $1500, then i guess that's good.

 

[richters]

Originally posted by cb911
yeah, there's alot of scammers working out of Italy, or at least they say they are, but i wouldn't really take their word for it.

I dare say that most of the spam messages are from the USA. What Italy has done now is a first step of cleaning up the email-spam-mess. And other countries hopefully follow. But if Bush's USA will not do anything, i.e. clamp down hard within the USA, then it will continue to stay a problem.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Good move, but lets hope its not an exceptional case and more countries follow suit. I'm amazed sometimes at how much spam I get. I wish there was an easy way to track where it came from and who's sharing the email address info....

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[wdlove]

Now that so many have signed up for phone blocking, which begins October 1st. I wonder what the result will be, I'm afraid that it will mean more spam E.Mail! Tougher prosecutions should help to curve some.

 

[rainman::|:|]

Originally posted by wdlove
Now that so many have signed up for phone blocking, which begins October 1st. I wonder what the result will be, I'm afraid that it will mean more spam E.Mail! Tougher prosecutions should help to curve some.

thanks to the government's overly-lax legislation, the block-list has a good deal of exclusions that mean only a few calls will have to stop. I'm disappointed by it. But, I can stop getting calls from DirectTV, i had thought about getting it (since i spent like $160 on cable) but since they call EVERY DAY and use my entire answering machine tape, screw 'em!

pnw