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Several people have been accused by Microsoft of violating US anti-spam laws
Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against unnamed defendants who it believes sent spam that violated the US anti-spam law CAN-SPAM.
The software giant alleges the defendants sent hundreds of thousands of emails to users around the world. The seven lawsuits, which were filed on Wednesday, claim the defendants compromised computers to route spam messages, used misleading subject lines and failed to include unsubscribe options and physical addresses in their messages.
"Sexually explicit materials and publications for sale in stores are required by [US] law to be covered from view with a brown paper wrapper, and it's important that consumers are protected online in the same way," said Nancy Anderson, vice-president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft. "Microsoft is committed to ensuring that Internet users are safe online and protected from receiving inappropriate content in email that is unsolicited, unwanted and illegal."
Sexually explicit spam, where the content is immediately viewable in the email, violates provisions known as "brown paper wrapper" in the CAN-SPAM law and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules, Microsoft said.
The company said that law requires sexually oriented email to include the label "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in the subject line and the immediately visible area of an email.
 News source: ZDNet UK
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