Wazoo Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 For those that haven't seen it yet ... Richter offers $7 million USD to Microsoft to settle that lawsuit. Apparently, Microsoft has accepted (judgement does include some caveats) ... http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=1...es+with+Redmond http://today.reuters.com/sponsoredby/Veriz...OFT-spam-DC.XML Additionally, as part of the settlement, Richter agreed to drop bankruptcy proceedings filed in March in the U.S. bankruptcy court in Denver, according to a joint statement by Microsoft and Richter. The settlement is conditioned on dismissal of the bankruptcy cases. http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/09/microsoft...facescan04.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 Yet an other win, this one AOL "won a $13 million judgment yesterday against a prominent spam gang in its first case filed under a law allowing seizure of spammers' assets." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...?referrer=email Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jank1887 Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 AOL will give away the confiscated items through a free raffle on its site, which it dubbed the "AOL Spammer's Gold Sweepstakes I can see it now: "By entering this contest you are agreeing to receive promotional email marketing from AOL, it's subsidiaries, and business partners." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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