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US court fines spam-blocker $11 million+
A US District Court in Illinois ordered Spamhaus to pay almost $12 million in damages to 3360insight and its chief officer, David Linhardt, who sued the UK-based organization over black listing.
The court also barred Spamhaus from causing any e-mail sent by e360insight or Linhardt to be “blocked, delayed, altered, or interrupted in anyway” and ordered Spamhaus to publish an apology stating that Linhardt and his company are not spammers, according to a copy of the order.
“This ruling confirms e360insight’s position that Spamhaus.org is a fanatical, vigilante organization that operates in the United States with blatant disregard for U.S. law,” Linhardt wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com on Thursday.
In a statement on its Web site, Spamhaus dismissed the judgment as invalid and charges that the court was “bamboozled by spammers.” Spamhaus didn’t mount a defense in the case; the ruling was a default judgment in absence of counterarguments, according to ZDNet.
“Default judgments obtained in US county, state or federal courts have no validity in the UK and cannot be enforced under the British legal system,” Spamhaus said on its Web site.
“As spamming is illegal in the UK., an Illinois court ordering a British organization to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to cease sending spam in the first place.”
If Mr Linhardt wants a ruling that counts, he needs to refile his case in the U.K., according to Spamhaus.
The Spamhaus blocklist is a data base of verified spam sources that is supplied at no cost to help e-mail administrators clean incoming e-mail streams. Spam accounts for about 75 percent of all e-mail, according to some estimates, and the Spamhaus list is one of the most popular blacklists to help cleanse e-mail.
Report by David Wilkening
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