BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft in $7m spam settlement Hooray!
US software giant Microsoft has won a US$7 million court settlement from a businessman considered to be one of the world’s biggest senders of spam e-mail.
Scott Richter agreed to pay the sum after Microsoft filed a lawsuit against his internet firm Opt In Real Big.
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Mark your calendar! I never thought I’d be happy about Microsoft winning a lawsuit.
Yeah, hooray, but where’s the evidence that this is going to make any major difference in the actual problem of spam? Will other spammers tremble and go away? If not, can we prosecute enough of them to make a difference? Call me cynical, but I think that the story is probably not very significant at all.
And when you read a sentence such as the following…
“As a result of joint lawsuits filed in 2003 by Microsoft and New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer, Mr Richter pledged he would now only send spam e-mails to people who had confirmed they were willing to receive them.”
…don’t you raise an eyebrow and think to yourself, “I don’t believe him.” Wouldn’t you love to know his mechanism for “confirming” consumers’ interest in receiving spam?