AOL Files Lawsuit Against IM &#39;Spim&#39;
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America Online Inc. said Thursday it had filed a federal lawsuit accusing numerous unnamed defendants of violating federal and state laws by sending bulk messages known as &quot;spim&quot; to instant message accounts and Internet chat rooms.
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Four of the nation's largest online providers Thursday announced a new round of lawsuits aimed at e-mail spammers, including the first major case involving spam sent via an instant messaging service. -The Washington Post
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Judge halts guilty plea by ex-AOL employee who sold e-mail addresses, questions new anti-spam law. NEW YORK  - A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee
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WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- The first known lawsuit against instant-message spam, sometimes called âspim,â was announced by America Online as part of a campaign to stem unwanted computer messages.
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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.
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MacCentral - America Online Inc. (AOL) has decided not to fully support Microsoft Corp.'s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the open- source community expressed intellectual property concerns.
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AOL will be adding a host of new features designed to combat spam, virii and spyware to version 9.0 of its browser. The package, known as &#39;AOL 9.0 Security Edition&#39; is a free download which was available from Thursday.
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Three people who allegedly sent America Online customers millions of junk e-mail messages touting penny stocks and other Internet gimmicks went on trial Tuesday in the nation's first such felony case.
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Microsoft, America Online (AOL), Yahoo and Earthlink have filed a handful of lawsuits against spammers, allegedly targeting some of the world&#39;s largest unsolicited mail offenders.
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BetaNews: After tackling Spam, AOL is now waging a two front offensive against spammers. America Online has taken the fight to &quot;Spim,&quot; which is crossing over the threshold of disruption.
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The Motion Picture Association of America says it has sued a company that sells Internet downloads of current movies like &quot;I, Robot&quot; and &quot;Spider-Man 2&quot; without permission.
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A spammer accused of sending unsolicited mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers pleaded guilty and faces potentially substantial fines and jail time, but one observer said the victory was at best a moral one for AOL.
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Today&#39;s new word, for all you dictionary freaks, is &quot;spim&quot;. Spam + IM (Instant Messaging) = Spim. IM Spam. And for many IM companies it is the bane of their existence requiring increasingly aggressive filtering and block list capabilities.
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(InfoWorld) - Three people have sued AOL LLC over the company'sÂ controversial release of member search-engine records, in what their lawyers are billing as the first such lawsuit seeking national class action status. The three AOL members charge the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary with, among other things, privacy violation, false advertising and unjust enrichment. Two unnamed AOL members residing in California, and Kasadore Ramkissoon, who lives in New York, filed their lawsuit on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit seeks monetary relief for all affected AOL members in the U.S. whose search data was disclosed without consent from January 1, 2004 until the present. The plaintiffs also ask the court to instruct AOL not to store or maintain users' Web search records, and to destroy the Web search records it currently has. The lawsuit stems from AOL's decision to post on its research Web site about 20 million search records from about 658,000 of its members, covering the three-month period between March and May. AOL didn't disclose the names of the members, but it grouped each member's records with a unique number. This made it possible to see what each individual searched for. The data included search queries, as well as Web sites the members clicked on to. When the issue became a privacy scandal in August, AOL apologized and pulled the data from the Web site, but by then the data set had been downloaded multiple times and the records remain available online. The records contain sensitive information like credit card, telephone and Social Security numbers, birth dates, full names and addresses. The New York Times tracked down one of the affected members and, with her permission, interviewed and identified her. The law firm Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo represents the plaintiffs. A copy of the complaint is posted on theÂ law firm's Web site. The scandal has had significant repercussions within AOL. Its Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern resigned and two other employeesÂ were fired. Last week, in an e-mail sent to all employees and obtained by IDG News Service, AOL's Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Miller referred to the incident as "the search data debacle" and announced AOL plans to hire, for the first time ever, a chief privacy officer. In the e-mail, Miller outlined a reorganization of AOL's business structure, which will include a unit solely dedicated to what he termed the "protection" of AOL consumers. Last week, in its latest search engine usage study, Nielsen/NetRatings reported that in August, people in the U.S. ran 18.2 percent fewer queries on AOL's search engine, compared with August 2005. Nielsen/NetRatings didn't venture any explanations for the drop, but industry observers have pointed directly at the search data scandal as the culprit. Among the top five search engine providers, AOL was the only one whose usage share shrunk last month. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against AOL in August over the search data release. AOL declined to provide comment for this story. Â
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In a second round of lawsuits announced on Thursday, four major US Internet service providers (ISPs) are taking on senders of e-mail spam and unwanted commercial messages sent via instant messaging.
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UPDATED: In a coordinated attack against spammers, some of the country&#39;s largest ISPs have filed new lawsuits against businesses and individuals that allegedly deluged users with unwanted and offensive e-mails.
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The Texas attorney general has launched a lawsuit against two men it says are spammers.