April 14, 2005

Spammers and the CAN-SPAM Act

Here is a thought, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, CAN-SPAM Act, is maily focused at email spammer companies sending more than 1,000 emails within a month.

Since blogs are becoming increasingly popular, and blog spam via comments or track-back pings are basically an assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing. Is this an extension of the law?

Posted by Elyse at April 14, 2005 4:04 AM | TrackBack
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I've been following the case of the first spammer to be tried under the new law Virginia implemented, and from my non-legal perspective, I'd unfortunately have to say no, it's not. Reading the law out of context, it basically covers "emails sent pedling products and/or services, with the potential to mask the identity of the email".

...keyword, email. However, because corporate sites are now using blogs, hopefully when governments follow, and blogspamming costs IT bling, they'll enact an amendment... or maybe state laws will get enacted faster. Either way, it's awesome to see legislation working, I wish it just didn't take so bloody long.

Posted by: JesterXL at April 14, 2005 10:28 AM