Man ordered to pay Facebook $1bn

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WTF................. Man ordered to pay Facebook $1bn ? The Register

A Canadian man has been ordered to pay Facebook $1bn Canadian for a barrage of more than four million penis-enlargement ads he posted on user walls in 2008.

That same year, a California court ordered Adam Guerbuez to pay the social networking site $873m for hacking into members' accounts and sending “sexually explicit messages." After Guerbuez failed to heed the demand, the case was brought in Quebec Superior Court, where the judgment was upheld last week, according to published news reports here and here.

Converted into Canadian currency, the judgment is about $1bn.
The California court fined Guerbuez $100 US in damages and $100 US in punitive damages for each of the 4.36 million messages he was accused of posting. The Montreal man never fought the charges, so Facebook ultimately prevailed in the case.

Not that Facebook has much chance of collecting. Guerbuez filed for bankruptcy in August and the site is one of several creditors listed. An order barring him from having a Facebook account or otherwise being involved with the site remains in effect.
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I am a dumb fuck! I didn't realize this has already been posted under a different headline. My bad!
 
It's more like 881 Million once converted....our dollars are basically at par these days. Creative way to get a headline...
 
Shouldn't this money (which they'll never get) go to the "victims" of the spam messages? doesn't make sense for Facebook to get it.
 
I just read the following quotes:

Reached Tuesday, Guerbuez denied the allegations against him. "I don't spam," he said. "I've never admitted any guilt on anything they accused me of, and I won't."
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A few lines down ...

He said, however, the whole fiasco has been a blessing in disguise because he received lots of publicity for his business as an Internet marketer.

"People know what I'm capable of doing: large-scale marketing."
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Surely that's pretty much admitting to it? But he won't have to pay much because he filed for bankruptcy and Facebook was one of his creditors...
 
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