"SPAMford" Wallace and FB

 
Facebook gets $711 million damages in anti-spam case
 
Reuters) - Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million in damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace, court documents show.
 
Wallace did not oppose the motion or appear at the hearing on September 18, 2009, according to a filing on Thursday in a San Jose, California federal court.
 
The site filed an anti-spamming case against Wallace in February for accessing people's Facebook accounts without their permission and sending phony mail and posts to the individuals' public message wall, the company said in a blog post.
 
"While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent," Facebook said in a blog post.
 
Wallace did not immediately respond to a Reuters email seeking comment. His email address was obtained from the court documents.
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE59T0U520091030
 


 

 

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