US court delivers landmark $2m spam fine
28 October 2003
A Californian court has made a landmark ruling against a company responsible for the sending of unsolicited emails.
In what is being seen as the first anti-spam judgment of its kind, PW Marketing of Los Angeles County has been issued with a $2 million (£1.1 million) bill.
The state's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, brought the case against PW Marketing and its owners Paul Willis and Claudia Griffin in 2002 under a 1998 state anti-spam law.
Changes to the law last month have made it easier to prosecute spammers, with Mr Lockyer's spokesman, Tom Dressler, saying the state now anticipated an increasing amount of activity in the coming months.
Mr Lockyer says the judgement, which bars PW Marketing from sending unsolicited commercial email, accessing computers that belong to other people without their permission and disguising its identity, will act as a model for future spam injunctions.
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