Largest anti-spam award goes to MySpace, $230 million

Los Angeles-based MySpace.com won what may be the largest anti-spam award, $230 million, the Associated Press reported.

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines when the two, accused of sending 730,000 messages to MySpace members, failed to show up to a court hearing. The 2003 CAN-SPAM Act give $100 in damages per violation, tripled when done willfully and knowingly, the AP reported.

The AP story notes that Internet service providers have struggled to collect such awards.