Volume V

Issue : 18: November 8, 2007

• Court Denies New York Rangers Injunction Request to Block the NHL
• eBay Wins Another Trade mark Battle Against Perfumebay.com
• Merrill Lynch Sues Over Racist Emails
• New Jersey Man Gets Jail Time for Violation of U.S. Anti-Spam Laws
• Defamation Case Against Wikipedia Dismissed
• Industry Canada Study Finds P2P File Sharing May Increase Music Sales
• The 2006-2007 Annual Report on Canadas Privacy Act Calls for Reform
• Transmeta Receives U.S. $250 Million in Patent Settlement with Intel
• Canadian Industry Group Seeks Canadian Content Regulation of the Internet

Home > Volume V > Issue 18: November 8, 2007 > New Jersey Man Gets Jail Time for Violation of U.S. Anti-Spam Laws

New Jersey Man Gets Jail Time for Violation of U.S. Anti-Spam Laws

A New York Federal court has sentenced a New Jersey man, Todd Moeller, to more than 2 years in prison for sending unsolicited emails in violation of U.S. anti-spam laws. Moeller sent emails advertising a computer security system to more than a million addresses of AOL subscribers as part of a deal that would see him get fifty per cent of the profits. The deal had been made with a government informant. Moeller and the co-accused had earlier pleaded guilty to breaking the anti-spam laws and defeating AOL’s filter system by using multiple computer servers and altering the email header information in order to conceal the source of the email.

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