MySpace was awarded $234 million in statutory damages, the largest ever anti-spam verdict made under CAN-SPAM and apparently under any law. MySpace上被授予二万三千四百点零零万美元在法定损害赔偿，有史以来规模最大的反垃圾邮件的判决下，可以垃圾邮件，显然根据任何法律。 This is also the first time damages have been awarded under the California Anti Phishing Act.这亦是第一次损害赔偿已经批出的合约下，加州的反钓鱼式攻击的行为。

The case was won against two notorious spammers, Sanford "Spamford" Wallace and Walter Rines.案件韩元对两个臭名昭著的垃圾邮件发送者，桑福德“ spamford ”华莱士和沃尔特rines 。

Wallace and Rines spammed MySpace by creating their own accounts and stealing the passwords of others.华莱士和rines垃圾邮件MySpace上建立自己的帐户和密码，窃取他人。 They then went on to mass message users an estimated 735,925 times.然后，他们接着就大规模的信息用户，估计735925倍。 Each of these messages warrant up to $300 in damages under the 2003 federal anti-spam law CAN-SPAN because they were conducted "willingly and knowingly".每个这些邮件的手令可达300美元的赔偿金，根据2003年联邦反垃圾邮件法可以大跨度，因为他们进行了“自愿和知情” 。 Source:资料来源： TechCrunch techcrunch

US District Judge Audrey B. Collins in Los Angeles awarded $157.4 million jointly against Rines and Wallace and an additional $63.4 million against Rines under CAN-SPAM - plus $1.5 million more against the pair under California's anti-phishing law.美国地方法院法官余乙柯林斯在美国洛杉矶颁发一亿五千七百四十○万美元共同反对rines和华莱士和额外六千三百四点○万美元对rines下，可以垃圾邮件-再加上1 50万美元，更反对对下加利福尼亚州的反钓鱼式攻击法。

In the late 1990s, Sanford Wallace's company, Cyber Promotions, aka Cyberpromo, was widely blacklisted as a source of unsolicited email.在20世纪90年代末，桑福德华莱士的公司，网络促销，又名cyberpromo ，被广泛列入黑名单，作为一个来源的不请自来的电子邮件。 Wallace's high-profile pro-spam stance and unrepentant persistence earned him the derisive nickname "Spamford".华莱士的高姿态亲垃圾邮件的立场和死不悔改的坚持为他赢得嘲弄的昵称“ spamford ” 。 Prior to his email spam ventures, Wallace had gained notoriety in other questionable marketing circles, as a heavy utilizer of junk fax marketing, a practice outlawed in the US since 1991.之前，他的垃圾电子邮件，合资企业，华莱士获得了恶名，在其他可疑的营销界，作为一个沉重的utilizer滥发传真的营销，这种做法取缔在美国，自1991年以来。 In 1995, Wallace formed Cyber Promotions, entering the spam market.在1995年，华莱士，形成网上促销活动，进入市场的垃圾邮件。 Thanks to a self-marketing campaign, Cyberpromo rapidly became the most successful seller of email marketing - as well as the number one source of unsolicited email.感谢自我营销活动， cyberpromo迅速成为最成功的卖方的电子邮件营销-以及有多少的来源之一，不请自来的电子邮件。 His activities won him the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize.他的活动，他赢得了1997年的免疫球蛋白的诺贝尔奖。

Odysseus Marketing and its principal Walter Rines, a former associate of Sanford Wallace, was also charged by the FTC with capturing, compiling and attempting to sell user data, and uploading software onto users' computers that reformatted search engine results to place his ad clients at the top.奥德修斯营销和其主要沃尔特rines ，前副桑福德华莱士也被落案起诉，由公平交易委员会与捕捉，编制，并试图出售用户数据，并上传到软件用户的计算机上格式化搜索引擎结果把他的广告客户顶端。

MySpace has another anti-spam case pending against a high-profile defendant, Scott Richter, who it claims gained access to MySpace profiles using stolen passwords and then sent spam bulletins from those accounts. MySpace上有另一个反垃圾邮件待决的案件对一个高姿态被告，斯科特里克特，谁它声称获得了MySpace上的配置文件使用被盗的密码，然后发送垃圾邮件的通报，从这些帐户。

While the amount may never be collected, this should send the strongest possible message against the spammers.而金额可能永远无法收集，这应该发出强烈的讯息，对垃圾邮件发送者。 Technology alone cannot stop spamming, but with legal help we surely can put an end to spamming on the internet.单单技术不能阻止垃圾邮件，但与法律帮助，我们一定能杜绝垃圾邮件在互联网上。

Other sources: AP, Wikipedia etc.其他资料来源：美联社，维基百科等。