Appeals Court Upholds Spammers Conviction
Precedence has been set, so let's get the rest of the spammers.

EP. 5 3:44 P.M. ET The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the nation's first felony conviction of illegal spamming.

Jeremy Jaynes, of Raleigh, N.C., considered among the top 10 spammers in the world at the time of his arrest, used the Internet to peddle pornography and sham products and services, prosecutors said. Thousands of people fell for his scam, grossing Jaynes' operations up to $750,000 per month, investigators said.

In its unanimous ruling, the appeals court wrote that Virginia has a "legitimate public interest" in policing unsolicited e-mail and that the state anti-spamming law's impact on interstate commerce "is incidental and clearly not excessive."

Read all about it here, courtesy of BusinessWeek.com:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8JUT7CG0.htm

-Eric