dogs and things: At an underground spammer site I used to frequent, spammers were commenting about how they and their friends were moving out of the US because of the laws. Sadly once out of the US, there is little that can be done except tear down their servers and such.

Another problem is that there are, believe it or not, ISPs that will actually cover for the spammer. One such example was when I filed abuse reports to Geocities and a certain unnamed ISP in the UK about Robert Soloway. Geocities immediately did the takedown and thanked me. The ISP in the UK, however, did not. Quite the opposite actually. They basically asked me to not send them reports like that, as how the person operates their computer is up to them, even if that operation meant spam. I could not get through to them the fact that a) Robert Soloway was using their services for spam, b) for fraud (this particular campaign involved wire fraud), and c) the computer in question was actually compromised, or at least appeared to be.

It´s a shame an internet-pig like this guy gets away with everything, this case must have scared the sh*t out of his fellow spammers.

So in this case, the intent of the law is something that I think we all want, but the scope of the law was called into question and resulted in it being overturned.