Court bars bulk email address sales site from further business.
Microsoft
has won a judgement against a UK man accused of selling lists of email addresses for the purpose of spamming.
The man, Paul Martin MacDonald, ran a business called
Bizads
, which sold email addresses in bulk.
Microsoft
argued that the sale of these addresses aided and abetted spammers and damaged the reputation of its
Hotmail
webmail service. The judge in the case agreed to put an immediate block on further address sales, and also said that
Microsoft
was entitled to compensation for losses resulting from spamming.
A detailed report of the case can be found on legal analysis site
Out-Law.com
.
Posted on 18 December 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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