WHOIS Privacy Considered "Material Falsification"
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Spam shouldn't be against the law, obviously if you're spamming virus's and phishing links but for advertising it shouldn't be a problem, no one is getting hurt, if they dont want to go to the site in the link they can just delete it... Or they can just report it as spam to their mail provider..
Meh o.o
Meh o.o
I'm all for a little spam, but this is disingenuous. Spam does cost the providers who are receiving your mail, in bandwidth, server time, and more.
This is all fucking bullshit! I use privacy on all my domains and I am not spammer nor criminal! I do it for my own safety and to reduce spam. They just want to be big brother for us all.
It also costs the sender to send email. Servers, bandwidth, domain, etc aren't free. Postal junk mail costs everyone as well. It costs money to for the sender to send it and it costs the tax payers money to have it delivered.
Actually no it doesn't. It costs me nothing to go check my mailbox at the curb. You do realize the USPS turns a profit right? Doesn't cost the taxpayers anything. It only costs the sender money to send it. However when you send me spam mail it costs me bandwidth to download that mail, disk space to store it, and processor time to sort it. Then more bandwidth and processor time for the user to download and view it off my server. All that money wasted for V1AGR4!!
What if someone flooded your physical mailbox with 10,000 pieces of junk mail every minute and whether you wanted it or not you had to pay $0.01 for every piece delivered to you? You'd be pretty pissed and scream for the government to ban unsolicited commercial mail.
Um, no. The Kilbride court did NOT hold that private registration is illegal.
The scumbag, spamming, pornography defendants - sentenced under numerous statutes, claimed that the statute preventing their FAKE registration of domain information in the context of sending spam was unconstitutionally vague because it could encompass those using private registration of accurate information.
The court rejected that argument.
Private registration for the purpose of concealing a spammer's true identity may be problematic - but the issue only arises if there is false information in the emails to begin with, and the email arise out of a subset of CAN-SPAM involving the sending of pornographic emails.
And - the defendants were trying to make it impossible to determine where they were.
Normally, that is not an issue as the person receiving your email knows you who are. No need to check domain registration information.
The scumbag, spamming, pornography defendants - sentenced under numerous statutes, claimed that the statute preventing their FAKE registration of domain information in the context of sending spam was unconstitutionally vague because it could encompass those using private registration of accurate information.
The court rejected that argument.
Private registration for the purpose of concealing a spammer's true identity may be problematic - but the issue only arises if there is false information in the emails to begin with, and the email arise out of a subset of CAN-SPAM involving the sending of pornographic emails.
And - the defendants were trying to make it impossible to determine where they were.
Normally, that is not an issue as the person receiving your email knows you who are. No need to check domain registration information.
If you honestly believe the USPS costs the tax payers $0 you're either a really bad troll or a moron.
I also hope you realize it costs the sender of bulk email a pretty penny as well.
this is a very important point. though it's up to the providers to have security precautions, no? many providers subscribe to blacklist watches, etc, so it's getting more difficult to send spam unless you worm it first.
