8 Ad Networks Sued

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A few weeks ago, 8 ad networks were served with a small claims court suit of up to $10k each for email spam. The suit is specifically for “violation of the California anti-spam laws”.

Now, it’s said that the person behind the suit is attorney James Wagner, — so I’m inclined to think he is just one of those money groveling attorneys that can’t make their living as a real attorney so he does it by suing everyone and their brother. What’s worse is… He’s winning!

Apparently the following networks were served:

Offerweb
AzoogleAds
Intermark/Copeac
ClickBooth/IntegraClick
AdDrive
The Useful
Admercial
Rextopia

As someone that’s been around the internet for several years, I realize that spam is just one of those things that we have to deal with.

I’d be interested in hearing one thing that we use on a daily basis that doesn’t have some sort of negative attached to it. Everything has a good and a bad — it’s just the way things are!

It doesn’t take much to create message rules to help weed emails and it certainly doesn’t take much to set up a free account for everything that requires an email address and keep your “serious” email account private.

It’s people like this Jim Bob Wagner that make it impossible for anything to stay affordable and what’s worse, it’s going to make it tougher yet for people to make a living online by forcing good paying affiliate marketers out of business.

Do you think the companies behind the ads being solicited via email should be held accountable for what their affiliates do?

What about Spam?

Does it push you over the edge?

Would you sue for it?

How do you choose to handle spam emails?

Tags: affiliate marketing, spam email, can-spam, spam lawsuit, james wagner