
Adult website operators got spanked by a US judge yesterday for their use of unsolicited email spam top entice folks to view their content.
From Network World:
A U.S. judge has ordered the halt to an e-mail campaign by the operators of adult Web sites after complaints by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice that the e-mail messages violated an antispam law.
Affiliates of ATM Global Systems, operator of adult Web sites including Sexyfriendsearch.com and Funhookups.com, sent out unsolicited e-mail with false or misleading header information, and failed to include an opt-out mechanism and a valid postal address, all violations of U.S. law, the FTC said in a press release on Tuesday.
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