Venkat Balasubramani has the story over on Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog (say that ten times fast). The players: Asis Internet Services v. Azoogle.com, Inc. The situation: "The Ninth Circuit recently rejected two appeals brought...

Here's a good thing to read: Jamie Tomasello from Cloudmark reminding us of the basics. Permission matters. Co-reg is bad. Making assumptions in place of getting explicit permission. In her blog post, Jamie points out some very reasonable...

Over on her fancy new blog, Annalivia Ford talks about the supposed "spam/anti-spam racket," like somehow ISPs want spam and find spam fighting to be a fabulous revenue stream (ROFL).Al Iverson's Spam Resource

Spamhaus writes: "The Herbalking aftermath continues with a federal judge ordering ringleader Lance Atkinson to pay the FTC a hefty US$15 million. After already admitting his involvement to the New Zealand authorities last year now the US Federal Trade...

Alan Ralsky, a pump-and-dump spammer noted by Spamhaus as one of the world's top ten worst spammers for "quite some time," is off to camp fed for 51 months. Anti-spammers are torn between cheering for his downfall and annoyance that the sentence...