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Title: Facebook awarded $873 million in damages after spam lawsuit Post by: Alex on November 25, 2008, 08:57:25 AM Facebook awarded $873 million in damages after spam lawsuit
There is spam in the world everywhere you look, whether it be in newspapers in the form of adverts or in your inbox as emails offering enhancements to your body or cheap priced software. But the last place you should expect spam is in your Facebook inbox. It seems that Facebook didn't like their users getting bombarded with stupid messages either, and they took the issue to court. On Friday, the courts ruled and now the offending spammers, Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital, must pay Facebook a total of $873 million. This breaks the previous record, $234 million, that MySpace received in a similar spamming case. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/43JzKu0AEEc/facebook-win-873-million-in-damages |