Do More Spam, Do More Time

Network World's Paul McNamara reports spam

There are provisions in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 "allowing for a spammer's profits to be considered in sentencing when financial damages caused by his crimes could not reasonably be calculated," McNamara writes. But until U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock applied those provisions last month in sentencing convicted spammer Min Kim, no other court had done so. Writes McNamara:

McNamara writes that "more big-time spammers" could face such stiffer sentences if Babcock's decision "becomes widely applied."