Well, its about time …

Ars Technica reports that two MySpace spammers have been given the largest fine in the history of the too-weak CAN-SPAM law:

The US District Court for the Central District of California made a default judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines for using MySpace to send more than 700,000 spam messages to users of the popular social networking service. The result is $234 million in damages for MySpace—assuming, of course, that Wallace and Rines can be tracked down and forced to pay up.

More here.

The article by Jacqui Cheng lists several other cases, including criminal prosecutions the under-utilized law has produced. Good news.

But its not nearly enough. America must strengthen anti-spam laws and put some teeth into the enforcement.