Facebook Wins $711M Anti-Spam Lawsuit

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Sanford Wallace already owes hundreds of millions of dollars in judgements to other service providers, so this number is largely meaningless.

The best part is that they're pursuing criminal charges against him.

Indeed. Sounds like he recently filed for bankruptcy too, so that will discharge all these judgments against him.

I wonder how much money he has stashed in offshore accounts...

> We continue to work on collecting as much as possible from Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue (likely far less than the full amount) and have hired a firm to help with this.

I wonder how much they have collected and how money from these lawsuits factors into their profitability. Not that I don't think these spammers deserve the judgments... That line just made me wonder if this has some bearing on Facebook's profitability.

Facebook is cash flow positive (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130), so the accounting related to the judgments probably has little or no impact on their profitability.

Yea, but they were talking about a previous ruling in another case. Off-hand, I'm not sure how many such rulings they have. It was just a thought that I figured might generate a bit of interesting discussion.

It's been more than 6 months since I've deleted my FB account. But I have deleted mine not because of those spams, but because of the ads, overloaded video and applet features and the like which deteriorated the main point: Staying in contact with the friends. So I don't care if FB has achieved anything that will ease the life of facebookers or charged a billion dollars or more.

How much spam do you have to send to be sued for $800 million??

Good luck getting that money.

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