Microsoft, Pfizer Sue Viagra Spammers

February 10, 2005 | Larry Seltzer

[holymoly]

Pfizer also filed 10 actions against Web sites whose names violate the company's Viagra trademark.

But they don't sell "Viagra", they sell "V1A6RA", or "V*1*G*R*A". </sarcasm>

[AppyPappy]

I hope they wipe them out.

[Tarpaulin]

Yes, but will the evidence stand up in court?

[martin_fierro]

The makers of C * I * A * L * I * S and C!AL!S should get in on this.

[7.62 x 51mm]

I get a thousand drug-pushing, erection-enhancing, porn, loan, mortgage, pirated-software emails a day. They all should be hung upon capture; no trials.

[EggsAckley]

I'm getting about ten spams a day from Canadian Parmaceutical spammers, same ads but always with a different "from" name. It just started about a month ago. Good riddance to them.

[kevkrom]

It's not quite what Microsoft and Pfizer are doing... but I like the idea of a paired-lawsuit approach. On the one side, you get the ISP suing for spamming and false advertising, and on the other, you have the patent holder claiming infringment. There's no way the spammer can get out of both claims, since defense against one would involve arguing that they're doing the other...

[SirChas]

Yes, but will the evidence stand up in court?

I'm sure there will be a stiff penalty!

[devane617]

I love the one with the subject "Wanna bang like a horse?". The latest round of spam I receive is for horney housewives.

[tacticalogic]

I'm sure there will be a stiff penalty!

But will anything ever come of it?

[politicalwit]

"Yes, but will the evidence stand up in court?"

Who should they notify if the hearing last for more than 4 hours?

[apillar]

I'm no legal expert, but what good will suing these foreign outfits in US courts do?

I doubt any of them are dumb enought to keep any assets in the country, so unless the drug companies are looking for a moral victory, I'm not sure I see the point.

[pabianice]

That should stiffen the spammers' resolve...

[SirChas]

But will anything ever come of it?

I think that a rigid jury will be able to handle this.

[tacticalogic]

I think that a rigid jury will be able to handle this.

Unless it's a hung jury, in which case it may be beneath them.

[Disambiguator]

It's amazing how fast these threads degenerate into a litany of bad puns.

[SirChas]

Unless it's a hung jury, in which case it may be beneath them.

What will be needed is a real hands on jury that won't let it slip between their fingers. That will insure a conviction.

[tacticalogic]

We're holding off on the good ones. Some people have a very low threshold of entertainment.

[holymoly]

We're holding off on the good ones. Some people have a very low threshold of entertainment.

Anyone suffering from "entertainment overload" please raise your... hand.

[7.62 x 51mm]

LOLOL! I got that batch last week, d.

Now, I'm getting 'horny young farm sluts shooting c** with their c****'. Just awful; hundreds of different ones each day.

I should have started saving these, long ago, as *.txt files to my HD, and made an albumn, for posterity.

I have friends and business associates who've had to change email addresses because they were so innundated with garbage.