Where the heck did that come from?!? Your personal ideology doesn't have a great deal of bearing in the matter.
What I am getting at here is that it seems to me that the only time a law gets enacted that has teeth, and is not encumbered with loopholes and clauses, is when that law directly benefits large corporate interests... Especially in the US (DMCA and patent law comes to mind, along with his utter refusal to ratify Kyoto)
While at first glance my viewpoint seems a little extreme, All it takes to make a person to wonder about the validity of that view is to look at George Bush's policies, and compare them to the list of contributors to his campaign.
Resources which they feel are better used to boost the quarterly statements.
... But a corporation has far more and better resources with which to combat it. They're also passing all their cost of doing so onto myself and their other customers, and we certainly don't have anyone willing to accept our passing them on again. I've expended a lot of time and effort in the war on spam, and the only compensation I get for that is a usable email system and a little hands on knowledge.
I agree, I am just pointing out a symptom of a larger problem... Is it right that we care more about stopping spam, than seeing to it that far more dangerous criminals are properly punished? I would be a bit dissapointed to find out that most people are not a bit surprised at the severity of the sentence as compared to those for more serious crimes.
Does that seem fair? It does if you are a big fortune 500 company whose only moral commitment is to the shareholders.
Perhaps not, but is the solution easier sentences for net abuse, or harsher penalties for real crimes? With good behaviour, Spammy is very unlikely to do anywhere near those nine years.
Part of sentencing is intended to provide deterrence. If they can't wake up and see the coffee, that they WILL be brought to justice and stopped and pay a heavy penalty, the solution is to raise the deterrence factor until they do.
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