An Anti-Spam company called Unspam Technologies filed a lawsuit that amounts to one billion dollars on behalf of over twenty thousand of their internet users.
Who is this lawsuit aimed at, anyway?
The company claims that they “are targeting anyone who targets our members with email spam, comment spam, or harvesting. This lawsuit is unique because we believe it is the first major case in the United States to bring a claim against spammers for harvesting email addresses.”
Also, the company spoke on Project Honey Pot. “Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.”
This system is completely unique, and extremely efficient and identifying spammers.
Who gets the money if they win?
The company says that a large part will go to legal fees, and possibly the members of Project Honey Pot that have provided the date that helps the case win.
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