And he got the 9 years for stealing 24 million dollars, not sending a bunch of emails. Stop being stupid

you an arab in eu!!! you get out now!!! go america where they render you blackie @ss!!

Finally! Someone who gets the whole point of the exercise! Uncensored America Bashing should always receive an equivalent Euro trashing.

As to the spammer, I think it’s great that the bw hoggin, fraudulent, con-artist, little tw@t got a good stiff one lol. He will probably appeal the sentence and have it reduced to 10 minutes of community service, after which he will move his mailing list to Nigeria where he will be worshipped as a god and it will be business as usual.

@Stunzeed and others comparing this to other crimes
Nine years for this is not too much. You’re barking at the wrong tree! Too skimpy sentences for (for example) violent crimes is the real problem you should be crying for.

@Bruce
“The punishment should fit the crime.”?
Ok, you asked it and here’s a solution. Instead of sending the spammer for 9 years to prison, this would be more appropiate: Sentenced to deepest hellhole for reading aloud each and every spam messages he sent… as long as it takes. That way the sentence corresponds to crime.

Oh… and naturally those earning should be taken away. Possibly diverted to Red Cross or similar organizations.

@Frank
Yeah… in Utopia everything should be working without regulation. Perhaps you should find the Utopia and move to there? Obviously you have absolutely NO idea what is involved in spamming! Go on and learn a little. FYI, your idea of “spam protection” is unfortunaly like suggesting someone to get better earplugs when his/her neighbor makes more and more noise everyday. Oh… wait! The OTHER neighbors have to use better and better earplugs (=”spam protection”), too! And somehow you think this is the way it should be?

@ALL
Some people don’t know the difference between U.S. as country and U.S. citizens/people and this even escalates the well known problem. People tend to think that the loudest and most stupid people represent their country best. Having said that, it’s no wonder that people like “gavrielle” unfortunately makes the others (quite wrognly) to think “stupid americans” or similars things. A prime candidate for Darwin Awards: gavrielle

@eu citizen
By your comment, you only seem to be the other side of the bad coin named “gavrielle”. You’re on your way to runner-up for D.A. title.

This euro person here doesn’t hate the US (not america you poser, in case you didn’t know you actually have neighbours also in the same continent) but what i do hate is imbecils like you who think that everyone else is worse off and that everybody owes the US something. If this can get past that thickness you call a head, you cannot “save Europe” when it’s europeans versus other europeans. And if you had such good intentions you bloody sure took your time with everyone else doing the fighting for you. In WWI even small countries were in the war longer and had more casualties than the US. In the 2nd you sat on your fat arses until Pearl Harbour. And even then Germany had to declare war on the US for you to come to the european theater of operations where basically the russians did all the fighting and dying for you. Oh! but you had the glory of beating some reserve washed out divisions and some 13 year old boys.

Now THAT’s why people think you’re a dummy, you couldn’t be mroe wrong.

WWI was almost resolved when, against allied wishes, America decided to get involved. Thus ultimatelyy extended the war by years. You were also the nation at teh time who refused to take a side, good OR bad, and as a result were supplying Germany and the Allies at the same time. When you were asked to NPOT get involved, you did anyway. READ REAL AND GENUINE HISTORY, NOT THEAMERCIAN VERSIONS. I’ve studied from both sides, the US ones are like Readers Digest condensed versions with all the bad stuff left out to make America look good (no different that teh reports from Iraq though).

As for WWII, Germany turned tail nearly 4 YEARS before D-Day, after being defeated by the Royal Air Force (at that time, combined Canadian, French, some US, Portuguese etc.). They were attacking Western Russia when America became heavily involved.

So take your righteous, “We saved the world from these ungrateful bastards” attitude and bow it out of you uneducated arse.

As for global support, if it wasn’t for UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, your own troops would be seeing far mreo casualties. As commented by MOST US troops in Iraq, they are damn glad they have UK support as the UK is taking care of intricate, covert missions that the US simply isn’t trained, equipped or prepared for. When yuo left Afghanistan, you turned over security to the same thugs you were originally protecting the Afghans from, if it wasn’t for Canadian troops taking over the lead in Afghanistan, it would have reverted back to worse than it was before you stuck your nose in to ’save them’.

As an American in 2008, you have no position to even pretend to be righteous, saviours or even wanted by the rest of the free world. So go sit down and polish your sidearm while studying hooked on phonics.

No, I don’t hate Americans, I don’t even see this as America bashing; it’s simply a reality check for you, something which many Americans need REALLY bad.

No he didn’t get 9 years for sending spam.

But at 750,000.00 month of THEFT (these were scams not legitimate business dealings)that makes a theft of 9 MILLION a year. 1 year per one million in THEFT really doesn’t sound that bad.

For those who didn’t comrpehend the article, nobody got sentenced to 9 years for sending spam mail. It was for stealing millions of dollars, not sending out email with a fun offer.

How do you feel that 9 years for stealing 3/4 of a million per month is a bit too much? You ask me, he got off pretty good.

It’s not the act as much as the severity of the crime.

Cheering on a country whose government has grown to eclipses it citizens isn’t the behavior of a patriotic citizen, but a welfare bottle-fed serf. Welcome aboard, cheerleader, we are Euro-trash bound.