First U.S. Spammer To Get Canned By Being Thrown In The Slammer (Maybe)

The wonderfully geeky Slashdot is reporting that, when it comes to spamming, spam doesn't taste so good when you get caught force-feeding it to people against their will. Or something like that. Yeah.

Lettuce explain:

Spammer Jeffrey Brett Goodin has been convicted under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, the first person in the U.S. prosecuted successfully under the law. He is facing a sentence of up to 101 years in a federal prison after being found guilty of numerous illegal acts. According to prosecutors, Goodin was convicted on multiple counts in addition to the CAN-SPAM conviction, including wire fraud, unauthorized use of credit cards, misuse of the AOL trademark and attempted witness harassment.

I'm all for putting an end to spamming once and for all - but, dudes, 101 years? That's, um, pretty harsh. Unless, as being speculated in the comments section on the 'Dot, that the guy will serve his time concurrently if he does go to jail. Where, if he does, I hope they serve a certain canned food stuff in the cafeteria, and fellow prisoners bombard his cell with hundreds of crudely written ads for Viagra in the middle of the night.

It would be an apt punishment, yes. It would be apt.

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