Texas Attorney Gen. Sues Student Spammer (UT student)

[bluestateguy]

Chances are if you have ever received spam you got a lot of it from this little shit. And he has made a lot of money at it too.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=9&u=/ap/20050114/ap_on_hi_te/spam_lawsuit

AUSTIN, Texas - The state attorney general filed a lawsuit against a 22-year-old college student and his business partner, accusing them of illegally sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited, misleading e-mails.

Ryan Pitylak, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, heads the fourth-largest spamming operation in the world, Attorney General Gregg Abbott said.

The lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that Pitylak and Mark Trotter, his 40-year-old business partner from Encinitas, Calif., have been sending the e-mails since at least Sept. 1, 2003.

"We want to make clear that these defendants we are suing today and any other illegal spammers in the state of Texas can't hide behind a computer screen any longer," Abbott said in filing the state's first e-mail spamming lawsuit.

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[Ian David]

1. Cool!

What are their email addresses?

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Maybe that death penalty in TX will finally be put to good use.

I'm kidding. Well, sorta.

[johncoby2]

3. Build a shoddy home? who cares? But send a spam....

and the AG's office is there to protect you. Go figure.

[rkc3]

4. Spammers aren't organized enough to have their own PAC.

Once they do though, look out.

[sybylla]

5. I don't know about anyone else but I'm suffering from no shortage of spam

They keep catching these guys and I still get about 60 spam a day. If these guys were the spamming kings they're portrayed to be, you'd think it would start making a difference after a while.