AP: N.Y. Judge: No Unasked-For Spam
State (NY) Supreme Court Justice Lottie E. Wilkins permanently enjoined MonsterHut, which state officials accused of sending some 500 million unsolicited commercial e-mails and then telling complaining recipients that they had requested it.
Spitzer said MonsterHut.com told its clients and later the court that the recipients had agreed to receive e-mail through "third party, permission-based" agreements. This meant that MonsterHut.com got the computer users' names from organizations that had already gotten permission to send ads to them.
The judge said MonsterHut.com had "not offered any proof or legal basis to demonstrate that their practice conforms with industry-wide accepted 'opt in' protocols." She barred the firm from further "fraudulent, deceptive and illegal acts and practices" pertaining to e-mail advertising.
