Jeremy Jaynes’ jail term
p2pnet.net News:- Yesterday’s story on Jeremy Jaynes’ nine-year jail sentence for spamming drew a lot of Readers’ Writes.
Below, for your continuing education, is a selection.
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$24!!! Im in the wrong bizz. I think we need to start putting away people dumb enough to bite on the spam too! $24M!!!!! No wonder they keep doing it. Holly cow $24M!
Hopefully that will free up some bandwidth for us P2P users?!?
is everyone sure that this is what they want!!!!!!!!!! Look at what is happening to something we all hold so dear. First it was domain names and then it went to the RIAA sueing 13 yr olds and 70 yr olds for someting that is going to happen whether they want it to or not and now we can sue someone for sending out spam. Im sorry but i think this si terribly wrong and that if the people do not stand up against government control of the net the safe haven where you can express anything you want will be gone. I know most of you are probobly thinking that I must be a spammer but truly I have never sent out spam and infact don’t do reply to the chain mail that I get from friends. I jsut am concerned that something that means so much to me will be ruined by people trying to control it.
Dude, how many spam mails to YOU get a day? I get about 50-100. That guy should be shot. And you should be slapped for sticking up for the rights of someone who makes a buck off invading everyone else’s privacy and taxing the electronic infrastructure of the nation (world?). He’s the devil and you’re a fool.
I’m not a fan of spam by any means. But I have observed that, when the other guy has an idea and advertises via e-mail to you or me…it’s spam. However, when you or me have an idea and decides to advertise via e-mail – it’s a “good product that everyone should hear about.” The masses – one huge blind spot wrapped up in hypocritical, sick irony.
I hate spam. I spend probably 10-15 minutes a day deleting that crap, before I get to the real email. Multiply that times millions of users getting spammed. That’s a LOT of wasted time and time is money. 9 years isn’t enough fot that jerk.
Wow have we taken the first step down a slippery slope…..As most of you know often spam programs will take public e-mail addresses off the web and then use them as the from address.
Let’s just say that one of these programs hijacks your e-mail address and next thing you know you’re standing tall before the Judge. Could you prove that you didn’t send the e-mail?
Think of the future where political activists send out e-mails to “subscribers” and someone complains that it’s spam. Do we jail them as well?
And finally sending this person to prison, much like sending hardened convicts into the gen pop. will only spread the process among other convicts who when released will multiply the amount of spam out there by 100.
So I recommend that we define spam as unsolicited e-mail for commercial gain OR place regulations on it so that consumers can easily filter it out. Yes there are a few people who actually like getting spam and they do buy the products. Jail time isn’t going to solve the problem and with all the publicity “he made 24 million USD” think of all the people who will want to get into this. The crime is easier, seems to make more and has lower risk than selling drugs on the street for example.
i hate spammers as much as the next guy – 1st thing i do in the AM is dump the garbage. but this is ridiculous. if hed stolen $10 million from a pension fund hed get 10 minutes at a federal holiday farm.
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See:-
story – 9 years for spammer Jaynes, p2pnet, November 5, 2004
November 6th, 2004 at 10:49 pm
Nine years, Jeez, that’s a bit much! A nonviolent spammer being put in with theives, murderers, and butt fookers? I don’t know but I think there has to be a better way. Let’s do the Clockwork Orange thing. Hell, it’s the new millennium, 1984 is long gone, human cloning is nearly ready for our brave new world, and it’s time we let science solve crime if the correctionalists can’t get it right. Put them on acid and after they’ve talked to God enough they’ll be scared straight, especially if you throw in a bit of Stanley Kubrick’s razzamatazz. I don’t favor prison time at all, just tweak their brains and be done with crime once and for all.
December 22nd, 2005 at 4:58 am
rapists, murderers, pimps, drug addicts, pushers, child molesters, they all get less years than bulk advertisers?
this is how we treat a problem? look. aol, earthlink, msn, etc, bought the government. their lobbyists pushed this can-spam law through, simply because they weren’t getting paid for each e-mail, and their advertisers complained.
how the hell do you think cigarettes are still on the market?? what other use do they have than to kill people? even the gov’t tells you they kill you. tobacco lobbyists have bought votes in their favor.
this 9 year sentence against spammers is the tip of the iceberg. big business can push thru anything in gov’t that benefits them. just give a lobbyist a blank check and they’ll own every public official around. or at least enough for a majority vote.