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[FYI] New weapon for spam: bounty



http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5722718.htm

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New weapon for spam: bounty
By Michael Bazeley, Mercury News

Spammers beware. Larry Lessig wants to put a price on your head.

The Stanford law professor will team with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose,
on Monday to unveil a bill that would require unsolicited commercial
e-mails to be identified as advertising -- and then put a bounty on
anyone who breaks that law.

If the law passes, citizens could be eligible for rewards of thousands
of dollars or more if they're the first to provide the government with
proof and the identity of offending spammers.

``It's like bounty hunters in the old West,'' said Lessig, who most
recently argued a landmark copyright protection case before the U.S.
Supreme Court. ``You bring 'em in and get the bounty.''

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Endlich eine Möglichkeit seine Kleinbusflotte zu finanzieren!  :->

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