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- SuperGhost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33So he's the 4th worst spammer... at 25 million emails a day. Who's the worst? And how many million mails must HE/SHE be sending!? This guy should be forced to eat SPAM for the rest of his life.
- MondoMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33To bad we don't get to flog him! Although I guess taking all his money might be more painful.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25He would sure regret selling all those penis enlargement drugs.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Here you go: Microsoft was too easy on him.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Along those lines, is anyone else utterly floored by the irony of his name? Pitylak? I lack any pity for castrating his monkey ass.
The man himself... http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/photos/ryanpitylak.jpg
If you see him, give him a swift kick in the ass for me. - JDOG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I got no love for this guy.
How can he not be in some sort of pound-em-in-the-ass prison for this? 25,000,000 e-mails out every day at his peak...that's absurd. - diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17He probably cost his spamming victims more money than he had to pay a fine for.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Ryan Pitylak, you've lead a trite and meaningless life. And you're a very bad person. I hereby sentence you...to a term of no less than four years in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Too bad they can't strip him of his degree too - money is no biggy - easy come, easy go, and he probably made a heck of a lot more than £1 million. How about robbing him of something that he would consider a lot more valuable - the last three years or so of his university life? Would be a poetic punishment for the millions of man hours his spam has wasted across the globe
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Took away *most* of his assets? Why didn't they take away 2x his assets?
I want to see this ***** bankrupt 10 times over. - threepio, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23Dragged out, shot, hung, quartered and burned on a pyre.
Even that would be too good for him. "I should like to live long enough to see your head on a pike" comes to mind. - saleens281, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19why didn't he go to prison? ***** the fine.
- TubaTechno, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I have a feeling people are SOMEHOW going to flame MS about this.....
- Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14He's lucky to be in the U.S. instead of Russia.
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml - Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If you think there is 60 seconds per hour, then you fail at time.
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets" I'm guessing more than a million?
- beatmix01, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12how about 25 million cans of spice ham sent to everyone! hormel rules!
- pad22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10How much money did he MAKE though??
- leftfoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Are you ***** telling me that this guy lives about 15 minutes away from me... And I'm not able to kick his ass? Damnit.
- benhiler, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Even spam is bigger in Texas.heck yes its Texas
- tek1024, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If you'd like to send him a personal note of condolence on his $1M+ loss, you may do so here:
http://www.skycorpservices.com/cgi-bin/fpm.cgi
(As linked from ryanpitylak.com)
Enjoy! - gwalbridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd like to know where the $1 million and assets went. It didn't negatively affect Microsoft in a direct manner, so where is it going? If it was us, the consumers, that were spammed by him day in and out, why don't we see any of it?
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8less than he's losing :-P
- mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"This guy should be forced to eat SPAM for the rest of his life."
Now that's cruel! Just kill him instead. - foomandoonian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Mod me down if you like, but I'm pretty sure you would all take the money too ;-)
- CrispyPork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm hiring someone to approach him 30 times a day selling him viagra when he's in the middle of doing something
- portwojc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The sad part is it doesn't just seem like it's enough. Hopefully no one will ever hire him. Though it would be funny to have companies send him through 20+ hour interview sessions for nothing. Now that would be justice.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5He should have to pay back the cost of all the bandwidth he has wasted. More people need to realize that spam is more than just a nuisance. It does damage to the internet. I heard one estimate that almost 1/5 of all internet bandwidth is consumed by spam. If that is even close to accurate it is freaking outragous!
- skizatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can imagine the conversation at the prison.
"So what're you guys in for?"
Inmate #1: "Robbery."
Inmate #2: "Grand theft auto."
Pitylak: "Sending out 25 million spam e-mails per day."
... pandemonium ensues as his prison sentence is "ended" ... - Chakz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's the user. Don't think you're superior because you use an OS that is known to have less spyware, in fact I think someone who uses Windows and doesn't get spyware is more superior than you. If you can't use Windows and IE without getting viruses/spyware/porn pop-ups then you're an idiot, and we all know what idiots do, buy the simplest thing possible. "I love my Mac and my iPod because I'm too stupid to use anything a bit more complicated."
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Nobody beats the king! Oh wait, it's the wiz...
- DrNoDoze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Pitylak, who plans to help Internet companies fight spam, said he would sell his $430,000 house and a 2005 BMW to help pay his fines and legal bills." - No doubt he will be employed shortly. He will fit right in with the today's corporate culture.
- mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Not me. Making computers more common is the root cause of spam, not the OS. If Windows never existed it might have taken a few more years for desktop computers to become common and a different OS would be the most popular, but spam would spring up just as soon as there were enough suckers on the internet to make it profitable.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He made more than he lost, actually, because it cost him most of his assets, meaning less than 100%.
I'm sure he has lots of undeclared assets/income, though. A little safety net for when something like this happens. - lasvegas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"The civil settlements were both reached last month in federal court."
So no criminal charges??? - ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Real simple... an hour in prison per SPAM message sent.
- format, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@orange13
"said he would sell his $430,000 house and a 2005 BMW to help pay his fines and legal bills."
Key word here being 'help' - lasvegas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well it seems like he was sued by Texas and Microsoft... so they are the ones that will get the $$$ if they can collect it.
- foomandoonian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I was just thinking that - would I become a spammer for a few million quid? Hmm...
- MattS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4None of you seem to get it. Spam works - or else vendors wouldn't keep paying to send it. Ryan Pitylak made a living because he knew not to over-estimate the general public - as it appears we have.
DO NOT SHOOT THE SPAMMER - JUST STOP BUYING HIS SH*T! Then the spam will die naturally.
Treat the disease - not the symptom. - brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well...would you guys do this knowing you could become a millionare (perhaps billionare) doing it?
The problem with the punishment is it shows all of the 9-5 workers struggling to make ends meet "hey screw that, being illegal gets me rich". - ZombieFlanders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We could all be getting such better pings on our gaming servers if it weren't for these damn spammers! It's the proverbial few that ruin it for the rest of us.
- mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Get a gmail account; this will block about 95% of spam right there. Get Thunderbird and set it up to handle your gmail account; before long its junk mail filters will be trained to catch the spam that slips through gmail's filters. Suddenly you won't be seeing much spam. Need a gmail invite? I have plenty; just ask around.
I rarely ever see spam in my inbox. Usually there are about 4 junk emails per week that make it to Thunderbird, where they are promptly redirected to my junk email folder. However, when I log into gmail via my browser I find that there about a thousand emails in my spam folder -- no exaggeration. - ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Fizzle: Actually a lot of the operations advertised by spammers ARE illegal, involving fraud, knock-off merchandise, fake prescription medications, etc. These guys aren't merely 'annoying' people. They (the biggest spammer gangs) are often criminals, with ties to organized crime.
Posting your email address somewhere shouldn't give spammers free-reign to send you junk mail anymore than having your phone number in the phone book should entitle telemarketers to rendering your phone utterly useless by calling 2500 times a day. Many of us PAY for our email addresses, and spammers (sending us millions of messages with botnets at next to no expense) cost us time and money by having to weed out their junk. - fowleryo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10as much as this guy needs to have his money taken away, there is still part of me that thinks it's pretty badass he made that much money
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He should just be in a country that doesn't protect him from cruel punishments. That way he could be forced to eat spam everyday, for every meal, for the rest of his life. It would be sweeeet. =]
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32+ moderation for the obligitory Office Space reference.
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Unfortunately, there will always be that 1% of gullible people who keep spam operations afloat by buying their products. It's like suggesting that drug dealers will go away, all you have to do it get people to stop buying cocaine. Nice idea; not realistic in the real world.
Hardly anyone buys from spammers as it is, relative to the amount of spams sent. He alone was sending 25 million spams a DAY... See? Even a few hundred orders now and then makes his money back. - kuchta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Haha. Got me. Apparently my math was too quick ;-)
25 mil / 24 / 60 / 60 = 290 emails per second. A little more reasonable.
That's what I get for taking too many advanced math classes in college :-) - slamm6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+324.999.998 ***** spam on the net
24.999.998 ***** spam!
Take one down, pass it around
24.999.997 ***** spam on the net! -
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