Seattle "Spam King" Sentenced

Just a couple weeks after sitting on the Sonics trial, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman passed down a precedent setting judgement in the case of Robert Soloway, the so-called Seattle "Spam King." Yesterday, the Judge sentenced Soloway to 47 months in prison for sending over 90 million spam messages in just three months off two servers. His nearly four year sentence is only half of what the prosecution requested.

Soloway is only the second American to be convicted under the Can-Spam Act of 2003. Judge Pechman noted the lack of case law and the fact that the idea of criminal spamming was "new territory" in citing her sentencing. And while she likened spam to internet pollution, she also said that it was impossible to accurately count or quantify the Spam King's victims and the damage his spamming had done.

Soloway has been given 60 days to report for imprisonment. Do you think the Spam King got what he deserved? Should spamming be a punishable effect? And when is Judge Pechman coming for the all the ED medicine ads and online casino spam that still finds it's way into our spam filter?

Not arrested for this kind of Spam, "Wall of Spam" by chotda