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"MySpace has just released a statement saying that it has won its lawsuit against Media Breakaway and its founder Scott Richter, for their spam attacks on MySpace.  Last Friday, the American Arbitration Association awarded MySpace over $6 million in damages and attorney fees, as well as the entering of a permanent injunction against Scott Richter and Media Breakaway.\nThis is the second recent example of MySpace winning a high profile court battle against spammers, which had previously been pretty tough for the social networking giant to do.  Last month, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines lost out to MySpace (big time) with a $234 million judgment against the two notorious spammers.  And Richter has spent some time in the hot seat for spamming in years past, having been legally pursued by Microsoft and former New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.\nThe court battles and their subsequent rulings, however, have been a long time in the making, with the initial onslaught of spam from Media Breakaway beginning in August, 2006, with the lawsuit being brought against the company by MySpace in January, 2007.  Thanks to the anti-spam CAN-SPAM law of 2003, it's been easier for MySpace to attempt to deter spam through court measures.\nThough I seem to still get a lot of spam through my own MySpace inbox, it's no worse than what I get in my email inbox.  And thanks to these two very visible court wins, the appearance of a heavy hand against spam seems to be a particularly important goal for MySpace right now."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2008/06/16/myspace-versus-scott-richter/>