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Facebook Wins $711M Anti-Spam Lawsuit
- tptacek 17y agoSanford Wallace already owes hundreds of millions of dollars in judgements to other service providers, so this number is largely meaningless.
- pyre 17y ago> 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.
- drp 17y agoFacebook is cash flow positive (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130), so the accounting related to the judgments probably has little or no impact on their profitability.
- pyre 17y agoYea, 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.
- vaksel 17y agoGood luck getting that money.
- chrischen 17y agoHow much spam do you have to send to be sued for $800 million??
- aurora72 17y agoIt'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.