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April 20th, 2004, 07:45 PM
Link to story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/spam_sentencing/
-{ Quote: "US proposes rigorous spam sentencing
By John Leyden
Published Friday 16th April 2004 16:39 GMT
The US Sentencing Commission (USSC) sent its proposals for sentencing spammers off to Congress this week.
Offences under the recently-introduced Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM Act) will be treated as a felony. Criminal sanctions apply where spam is sent using someone else's computer without their permission or where bulk mailers misrepresent the source of a message.
The USSC is taking a tough stand by retaining a controversial proposal to compare spamming to theft, fraud and property destruction offences for sentencing purposes...
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-{ Quote: "US proposes rigorous spam sentencing
By John Leyden
Published Friday 16th April 2004 16:39 GMT
The US Sentencing Commission (USSC) sent its proposals for sentencing spammers off to Congress this week.
Offences under the recently-introduced Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM Act) will be treated as a felony. Criminal sanctions apply where spam is sent using someone else's computer without their permission or where bulk mailers misrepresent the source of a message.
The USSC is taking a tough stand by retaining a controversial proposal to compare spamming to theft, fraud and property destruction offences for sentencing purposes...
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