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Posted on 09.15.08 by Thomas L. Knapp
“The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday unanimously overturned the 2004 conviction and nine-year prison sentence of spammer Jeremy Jaynes on the grounds that the state’s bulk e-mail law violates the First Amendment. The court ruled that the law was invalid because it applied to e-mails containing news, opinion or other non-commercial speech as well as to ads. Specifically, the 2003 Virginia spam law prohibited bulk e-mail senders from falsifying information about their IP addresses or domain names. The court found that this ban on false routing information infringes on the right to speak anonymously.” (09/15/08) Link: http://tinyurl.com/6lk639 Filed under: RRND News | Report Bad Link Bookmark this post in Furl or Del.icio.us | |
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