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Originally Posted by RawAlex
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06...m_convictions/
Guilty of violations of Can-SPAM, transportation of obscene materials, and money laundering.
The money Laundering by itself is up to 20 years. The Can Spams are 5 years each. THe obscenity I am not sure of. 8 counts total, the real "up to" could be 50 years or more done consecutively, which I am sure isn't what happened.
I am surprised there isn't a whole big stink about this. After all, the "transportation of obscene material" is a really big deal,essentially showing that moving this material over the net is apparently a crime.
I would think that some of the others on trial for obscenity charges are likely NOT happy to have seen this conviction.
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I'll agree with you and the "transportation of obscene material" was the first thing that threw up a major big red flag. That is a pretty scary judgment that was just put on the books, when you stop and thing about it.
Now the name Diamond Jim rings a bell, but I'm still not sure who these guys are. Maybe they were nice and top notch guys, but the deal is they were still spammers.
When I was new and dumb to this industry, I looked into spamming. I heard about these guys making shit loads of money sending e-mails. I almost did it myself, but that was before I figured out how these guys mail.
Everyone of these spammers mails by proxie. That means they are supporting the ass fucks that use exploits and trojan people's PC's. So they may have been the nicest, coolest guys on a board or at a party, but they were still supporting the very thing everyone here hates.
Spammers depend on trojaned PC's to send their mails, so if you are a spammer or support spammers. Well then you are supporting exploiting and doing illegal installs on surfers PC's and that means you are part of the problem that's killing this industry. It's not just about annoying e-mails in your inbox.