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Will they be able to pay $120M? And will there be also personal sanctions for the individuals responsible for this?

dqv 9y ago
>Will they be able to pay $120M? No. It doesn't cost that much money to make millions of robocalls. 100 phone lines * 60 minutes (1 minute recording length) * 14 hours of spamming per day * 365 days of the year ~30,000,000 calls a year The cost of doing this is less than $5,000/month for the phone lines. >And will there be also personal sanctions for the individuals responsible for this? The law always confuses me on this, so I can only go into what is theoretical. Two concepts come up: vicarious liability and piercing the corporate veil. Vicarious liability is when one entity is responsible for another entity's actions. Usually the concept applies with CompanyX contracting SpamConduitY. CompanyX says "no! We didn't make the calls, SpamConduitY did!" Vicarious liability holds the party who requested the performance of the calls accountable so that CompanyX can't just blame it all on SpamConduitY. Theoretically, the same could apply to Spam Man. The FCC or a litigant could argue Spam Man is vicariously liable for the actions of SpamConduitX. It's certainly possible that Spam Man's company SpamConduitX only had one employee: Spam Man. If that's the case, there is always a possibility of a determination that SpamConduitX is just an "alter ego" of Spam Man. Piercing the veil is said to be a rare event.
vabmit 9y ago
The most recent information visible in search about this guy's company shows he was making a little over $20,000/year. A recent traffic related arrest of someone with the same name as his in the same area where he is reported to live shows a residence in a cheap beach condo high rise in a low cost part of southern Florida. All that misery he put out into the world and he probably only made around $20K/yr (probably from mentally vulnerable/disabled populations). Have any of you ever actually purchased a cruise vacation from a robo-caller that spammed you in the middle of the night?

dqv 9y ago

>Will they be able to pay $120M? No. It doesn't cost that much money to make millions of robocalls. 100 phone lines * 60 minutes (1 minute recording length) * 14 hours of spamming per day * 365 days of the year ~30,000,000 calls a year The cost of doing this is less than $5,000/month for the phone lines. >And will there be also personal sanctions for the individuals responsible for this? The law always confuses me on this, so I can only go into what is theoretical. Two concepts come up: vicarious liability and piercing the corporate veil. Vicarious liability is when one entity is responsible for another entity's actions. Usually the concept applies with CompanyX contracting SpamConduitY. CompanyX says "no! We didn't make the calls, SpamConduitY did!" Vicarious liability holds the party who requested the performance of the calls accountable so that CompanyX can't just blame it all on SpamConduitY. Theoretically, the same could apply to Spam Man. The FCC or a litigant could argue Spam Man is vicariously liable for the actions of SpamConduitX. It's certainly possible that Spam Man's company SpamConduitX only had one employee: Spam Man. If that's the case, there is always a possibility of a determination that SpamConduitX is just an "alter ego" of Spam Man. Piercing the veil is said to be a rare event.

vabmit 9y ago

The most recent information visible in search about this guy's company shows he was making a little over $20,000/year. A recent traffic related arrest of someone with the same name as his in the same area where he is reported to live shows a residence in a cheap beach condo high rise in a low cost part of southern Florida. All that misery he put out into the world and he probably only made around $20K/yr (probably from mentally vulnerable/disabled populations). Have any of you ever actually purchased a cruise vacation from a robo-caller that spammed you in the middle of the night?