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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to access images of minors engaged in sex.At a hearing Wednesday in San Jose, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ordered Rohde to surrender Jan. 30 to begin serving a five-year sentence.Rohde is at least the third person connected with NASA Ames to be convicted in a child-pornography case .In July, former employee Christopher Burt Wiltsee, 57, of Morgan Hill was sentenced to five years...
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Tell-It-Like-It-Is (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
A federal court has awarded Facebook more than $873 million in damages against a spammer for showering the site's members with unsolicited advertisements that pushed sexually oriented products. Judge Jeremy Fogel, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, awarded statutory damages of more than $436.6 million against Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The question is raised by p2pnet reader Cody in a comment post to a p2pnet story which has Montreal spammer Adam Guerbuez (right) saying CTV, “spread vile lies” about him. “Judge Jeremy Fogel ordered Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, to pay Facebook $436.2 million in statutory damages, and [...]
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Montreal spammer Adam Guerbuez (right) says a Canadian television network is spreading lies about him. Judge Jeremy Fogel ordered Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, to pay Facebook $436.2 million in statutory damages, and another $436.2 million dollars in aggravated statutory damages, for violations of the Controlling the Assault of [...]...
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Security Management News & Analysis (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
A spammer was ordered to pay Facebook $873 million in damages by a federal judge last Friday, but the popular social networking Web site’s security director says he doesn’t expect payment in full. Federal judge Jeremy Fogel last week ordered Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company Atlantis Blue Capital to pay Facebook damages for spamming their users with unwanted solicitations for...
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Adland (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
But not only that, Informationweek reports that the spammers in question are also banned from facebook. Facebook Wins $873 Million Judgment Against Spammer U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel handed down the award last week following four months of litigation. In addition to the monetary judgment, the ruling prohibits the defendants, Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital,...
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Fade to Play (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
In the technology section of today’s globeandmail.com, there is an article about the landmark ruling against a Canadian spammer that awarded Facebook $873 (US) million in damages. In a landmark ruling Monday, U.S. federal Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded Facebook $873-million (U.S.) in damages after finding Mr. Guerbuez was in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... first performed in February, with and reading the texts in English. Here, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Jeremy Fogel recited in Hebrew.During an onstage interview Ms. Cheam Shapiro said she had referred to a Khmer translation of the Song of Songs in conceiving her choreography. Some of her gestures represented words or passages, she said. For others she went with the flow of the music.You...
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UncommonSense (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Spammers beware. Facebook has won a judgment of nearly a billion dollars—$873,277,200, to be exact—against a spammer who used the social networking service to illegally advertise his wares. California judge Jeremy Fogel ruled late last week that Adam Guerbuez was guilty of violating the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, and that he should be required to pay statutory damages, aggravated statutory damages,...
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Inside Facebook (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
For those not following our advice on how to effectively and authentically market inside Facebook, beware: a US District Court has awarded Facebook a $873 million judgment in its suit against marketers aggressively spamming Facebook users. Judge Jeremy Fogel made the ruling on Friday in San Jose District Court in Facebook’s case against Adam Guerbuez and [...]
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Adotas (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
ADOTAS — A judge has whacked a spammer for hacking into Facebook and sending sexually explicit messages to the social network’s members. Friday, federal Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded Facebook $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital. According to the social network, it is the largest award ever under the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
On Facebook, the spam you get from friends is bad enough, but tolerable. The really bad stuff is actual spam , which more and more people are being subject to. On Friday, judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose, California, awarded Facebook $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital under the CAN-SPAM act. It is the largest award under the act ever granted, topping...
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TheOtherSideofKim Front Page (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
We need more like this:Facebook on Friday won $873 million in damages from a spammer, the largest award to date under the 2003 Can-Spam Act. ... U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel handed down the award last week following four months of litigation. In addition to the monetary judgment, the ruling prohibits the defendants, Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, from accessing...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Facebook has won a $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded users with millions of unsolicited messages about drugs and sex. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel signed the default judgment Friday, resolving a lawsuit that Facebook filed in August against Adam Guerbuez of Montreal and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital. Facebook alleged that Guerbuez had fooled users into...
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Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Facebook has won a historic law suit against spammer Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital by Judge Jeremy Fogel a District Judge at the Northern District of California. According to the verdict Adam is required to pay Facebook $873 million, that is highly unlikely but extremely symbolic. Guerbuez was using Facebook’s messaging system to send spam messages to other people using fake...
