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Establish contractual damages in a ToS for the site. Prove violation and offender. Take to court and collect damages. Converting the effort into cash is tough,
by thephyber 6y ago
Establish contractual damages in a ToS for the site. Prove violation and offender. Take to court and collect damages.
Converting the effort into cash is tough, but the strategy exists.
Project HoneyPot is an API which allows any website to do this for honeypot email addresses which are injected the website, along with a ToS which says:
> By continuing to access the Website, You acknowledge and agree that each email address the Website contains has a value not less than US $50 derived from their relative secrecy.[1]
[1] https://www.projecthoneypot.org/terms_of_use.php https://www.projecthoneypot.org/terms_of_use.php
- the_jeremy 6y agoHas that ever worked? I can't find any record of judgments one way or the other, on their website or elsewhere.
- thephyber 6y agoI know ProjectHoneyPot was pushing a $x billion litigation against a spammer. I don't remember if/how that was resolved. This guy[1] apparently spent years just suing email spammers and occasionally winning. [1] https://www.danhatesspam.com/index.html https://www.danhatesspam.com/index.html
- the_jeremy 6y agoI also found the $1 billion lawsuit (against a bunch, not just one spammer, I believe), and could also not find any sort of resolution - not in legal docs, news pages, or project honeypot itself.