So what does everybody think of yesterday's settlement with the kiwi spammers? Is a $100k fine for being part of the world's largest spam email group nothing more than a polite telling off?
As I see it spamming now effectively legal in NZ providing you pay Internal Affairs $100k for a licence to spam. There are millions to now be made basing your spam haven in NZ.
One thing that the NZ media seems to have completely missed is that these guys were fined US$2.2 million by the FTC in 2005 for spamming. They must be laughing all the way to the bank when Internal Affairs here are celebrating for their first succesful prosecution and they only have to pay $100k!