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UK anti-spam victory for Microsoft

Lawsuit won against UK spammer.

Microsoft has won a lawsuit against a spammer based in the UK. Microsoft launched legal proceedings against 37-year-old Paul Martin McDonald after receiving numerous complaints from its Hotmail customers. McDonald's company Bizads sold lists of email addresses of people it claimed had subscribed to receive information about business oportunities via email. However, according to Microsoft the lists included the email addresses of a large number of its Hotmail customers who had not opted in or subscribed to any such service.

Microsoft argued that McDonald's activity breached the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations and that it was suffering loss and damage to the goodwill it had as operator of Hotmail. McDonald was issued with a court order banning him from instigating the transmission of spam emails. He may also be ordered to pay compensation to Microsoft.

03 January 2007

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