Microsoft wins case against German spammer
Microsoft Corp. has won a court case against a German spammer charged with forging e-mail and making it appear to come from Microsoft’s hotmail.com domain.
The regional appeals court in Karlsruhe found the person guilty of sending unsolicited mail and using Microsoft’s trademark-protected Hotmail brand without the company’s permission, Microsoft said Wednesday.
The spammer, whose name was not disclosed, had been distributing spam to promote his pornographic Web site for several months before the German court clamped down.
As part of the sentence, the convicted spammer agreed not to distribute forged e-mail using the Hotmail brand or face a $314,000 fine. In addition, he must provide Microsoft with detailed information about his e-mail promotional activities.
