OT: You Have a Constitutional Right to Send Spam

[carlsbadworker]

Back in 2004 the state of Virginia convicted Jeremy Jaynes under a then-new anti-spam law and sentenced him to nine years in prison for spamming. He has been appealing the conviction based on the argument that he has the right to spam others because of the Free Speech part of our constitution. The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that he is correct and that the state’s controversial anti-spam law does violate his right to free speech.Virginia’s Attorney General disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reference:
http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1062388.pdf?sid=ST2008091202006&s_pos=list

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201211.html

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/09/virginia_anti-spam_law_overtur.html?hpid=news-col-blogs

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/You-Have-a-Constitutional-Right-to-Send-Spam-97688

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