Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail

[Aristotle]

WOOOOO FREAKIN' HOOOOOO!

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=653257

LEESBURG, Va. Apr 8, 2005 — A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison Friday in the nation's first felony prosecution for sending junk e-mail, though the sentence was postponed while the case is appealed.

Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne said that because the law targeting bulk e-mail distribution is new and raises constitutional questions, it was appropriate to defer the prison time until appeals courts rule.

A jury had recommended the nine-year prison term after convicting Jeremy Jaynes of pumping out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need.

I love this part:

Jaynes, of Raleigh, N.C., told the judge that regardless of how the appeal turns out, "I can guarantee the court I will not be involved in the e-mail marketing business again."

Hahahahaha. Yeah, I bet you won't. I bet you thought you'd get away with it clean. Too bad, asshole. Go rot in jail.

The prosecutor, Lisa Hicks-Thomas, said she was pleased with the sentence and confident that the law would be upheld on appeal.

"We're satisfied that the court upheld what 12 citizens of Virginia determined was an appropriate sentence nine years in prison," Hicks-Thomas said.

Good!

Look at his BS from the defense attorney:

Though Oblon has never disputed that his client was a bulk e-mail distributor, he argued during the trial that the law was poorly crafted and that prosecutors never proved the e-mail was unsolicited. He also has said the law is an unconstitutional infringement of free speech.

How about you prove it was solicited. He got millions of people who asked HIM to send them email? Yeah right. Nice try, liar.

[Halyanne]

Maybe this could be applied to drug companies who keep mailing me about their cheap viagra.