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>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 recordin
by 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.