A question: do folks find this sort of thing interesting? It is always interesting to me to read off-beat news on LBO, but that may not be the case for the majority.
http://platosbeard.org/archives/203
Spamhaus is a volunteer project that maintains a list of known spammers, which is used by ISPs (and others such as myself who run mail gateways) to block incoming mail connections that are spam mail.
One of the listed spammers sued U.K based Spamhaus in Illinois and the judge ruled in his favour, awarding him $11 million and asking ICANN to suspend their domain registration (this last bit should give pause to those who favour U.S control of ICANN/Internet due to nostalgic libertarian reasons).
Here is Spamhaus' response:
http://www.spamhaus.org/legal/answer.lasso?ref=3
> A lawsuit filed in an Illinois court by David Linhardt (aka e360
> Insight LLC) against The Spamhaus Project Ltd., a British-based
> organisation over which the Illinois court had no jurisdiction, went
> predictably to default judgement when Spamhaus did not accept U.S.
> jurisdiction.
>
> <...>
>
> The default judgement awards compensatory damages totaling
> $11,715,000.00, orders Spamhaus to permanently remove Linhardt's
> ROKSO record, orders Spamhaus to lie by posting a notice stating that
> Linhardt is "not a spammer" and orders Spamhaus to cease blocking
> spam sent by Linhardt.
--ravi
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