Spammer sues, wins case for posting of public information

[the_technocrat]

<p>An anti-spam activist has lost a case in which publicly-available DNS records for a well-known spammer were published.</p>
<p>The Judge has fined the anti-spammer US$60,000 for "hacking", plus lawyers fees, for looking up the domain name of the spammer and re-publishing the public registration information.</p>
<p>For those who aren't familiar with DNS, this is like being sued by someone for looking them up in the phonebook and "making their personal information known" by re-publishing the data. However, this case is even more ludicrous, as the data being published was supplied by the spammer when they purchased the domain name.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/anti_spam_activist_lawsuit/">The Register</a></p>

[Thrax]

This is what happens when technologically-ignorant geezers serve as arms of the law.

[airbornflght]

Wow.

I would love to see the court transcript. Either this guy's lawyer was a complete bafoon or else the judge was completely retarded.

[Leonardo]

This will probably be appealed. Maybe they can find a court where the tech knowledge level is post-1985.