Afternoon tech news: The U.S. Congress could vote as early as this afternoon, would end more than six years of failed attempts to enact a federal law , according to industry experts.
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All this law will do is to legalize mainsleaze spam . Mainsleaze spam = "legit" companies (not p***, 419, viagra, drugs, MLM scams. Mainsleazers will be allowed to spam you until you cry uncle and unsubscribe. Just think about every business in the world spamming your email until it bleeds. It *WILL* happen. Opt-in is the ONLY way to control spam. Then again no law is worth anything if it is not enforced. Plus USA laws mean very little to other countries.
Spam is the one thing, that if outlawed, by definition of what spam is, leads you directly to the culpret.
It's the unsoliceted part that will be a very large gray area. The annoyed will have to prove they didn't ask for it.
As an earlier comment mentioned, no law is worth anything unless it is enforced. This law has no enforcement provisions probably and no mechanism for tracking down spammers. What if the unsubscribe links on spams don't work? How do they catch address spoofers? What about spam that originates outside the U.S.?
This law may be worse than nothing, because it now allows spam companies to use their lawyers and this law against people who sue them for spam, because the definition for spam is so loose.
Typical U.S. Congress and more specifically usual for a Republican controlled one.
- Maclectic
why doesn't the US government point the blame at the software companies (such as micro$oft) that release weak, bug ridden insecure software and punish them instead of blaming the end user? oh right- i forgot, we have a corporate c*** sucking president and attorney general. nevermind.
Remember it isn't just the Republicans that are allowing M$ to make insecure software. Clinton allowed M$ to spew out its insecure software for all of his presidency too. This isn't about Republican vs. Democrat. It is big business vs the regular guy/gal. USA has the best government that money can buy.
Our government is only bipartisan when it comes to holding its hand out to the corporate world.
Anyway, m$ sayting they are tough on spam is just a myth, here are 9 more:
http://www.clickz.com/feedback/buzz/article.php/3112021
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HA!
Outlawing spam will be about as effective as drinking with a fork.