Volume III

Issue : 13: June 30, 2005

• 40 Million Credit Card Accounts Compromised
• U.S. Appeals Court Rules on Californias Financial Privacy Law
• Microsoft Sues Alleged Hotmail Spammer
• New Kentucky Law Attempts to Regulate Internet Pharmacies
• Maryland Court to Decide Whether to Lift Cloak of Anonymity in Internet Defamation Suit
• FTC Issues Report on P2P File Sharing
• Canadian Federal Government Introduces New Copyright Bill
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules in MGM v. Grokster

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Microsoft Sues Alleged Hotmail Spammer

Microsoft Corp. has filed a suit in Germany against a company and its managing director alleged to be directing a web of companies in the U.S. and the Ukraine distributing millions of unsolicited e-mails.

Microsoft is seeking damages and an injunction to cease against the unnamed North Rhine Westphalia based company and its managing director. As the sending of unsolicited e-mails is not regulated in Germany, Microsoft is basing its complaint on German fair trade laws.

According to the statement issued on Microsoft's German-language website, the defendant company sent millions of e-mails advertising pornography, online casinos and website design services to Hotmail users.

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