Judge Imposes Record Fine in Spamming Case

A district court judge fined two notorious spammers $230 million for flooding MySpace email accounts with unwanted advertisements for porn and other activities. Judge Audrey Collins imposed the record fine under the terms of the CAN-SPAM Act against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines. Plaintiff MySpace obtained the default judgment when Mr. Wallace and Mr. Rines failed to appear. Read more about the case here.