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04 Apr 2002
Internet giant America Online (AOL) was celebrating yesterday after successfully suing a company for spamming its users with pornographic images.
AOL described it as a benchmark case for internet service providers irritated by lewd spam.
The company brought the case against Florida-based Cyber Entertainment Network, otherwise known as Netvision Audiotext, in December 2000, alleging that the adult network had been mass-mailing pornographic images to AOL subscribers.
The settlement terms remain undisclosed, but it is believed that AOL was seeking $10 for each unsolicited bulk email message sent.
AOL, which has 34 million subscribers worldwide, described the result as "ground breaking litigation" and said that other companies could use the case as a precedent with which to launch their own campaigns against the menace of spam.
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