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Will The Spammers Stop?
That’s the question that comes to mind when I think about the latest lawsuits in the affiliate world, with the most prominent lawsuit launched by MySpace a few days ago. If you haven’t heard, MySpace is cracking down on an affiliate network that allegedly phished accounts and sent spam bulletins to millions of Myspace users. But while this will discourage bigger companies from allowing spam, what will it do to discourage the spammers themselves?
If big lawsuits could stop spam, we’d have a lot less email to deal with. But unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Maybe in an ideal world…
No matter what, someone is going to be spamming and someone is going to be paying them. And if there are lots of people on Myspace, Myspace will get spammed. That’s one of those laws. Like a cross between “If you build it, they will come” and “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” Or something like that, because they built Myspace pretty big and stuff is going wrong!
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For more about the lawsuits, see WickedFire, more WickedFire, and BusinessWire.
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