Spammer
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:51 pm
I just read an interesting article about a spammer who got caught:
Freedom of speech? What do you think?
CNNAs one of the world's most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes pumped out at least 10 million e-mails a day . . . . prosecutors say he grossed up to $750,000 per month . . . . Relatively few people actually responded to Jaynes' pitches. In a typical month, prosecutors said during the trial, Jaynes might receive 10,000 to 17,000 credit card orders, thus making money on perhaps only one of every 30,000 e-mails he sent out. But he earned $40 a pop, and the undertaking was so vast that Jaynes could still pull in $400,000 to $750,000 a month, while spending perhaps $50,000 on bandwidth and other overhead . . . . Jaynes' defense attorney, David Oblon, never disputed that his client was a bulk e-mail distributor. But he argued that the law was poorly crafted and that prosecutors never proved the e-mail was unsolicited. He also argued before the trial that the law is an unconstitutional infringement of free speech.
Freedom of speech? What do you think?