CAN-SPAM in a Nutshell

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CAN-SPAM may provide legal protection for companies and a method of seeking financial retribution, but spammers rarely pay. When the fine is such an astronomical amount, why would a spammer even try? Without spam, a spammer will make no money, and how many “regular Joes” would be able to pay $16 million in fines? Laws may be in place, but paying the fines is beyond anyone’s means. Perhaps if the fines were of a more reasonable amount, we could see spammers actually being able to pay them. The large amounts being fined seem to be more of a warning to other spammers than a feasible amount for someone to pay.

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