Trell,
You're a closet spammer, right? You got some sort of online business going and you're scared? Too bad. The spammers were warned and a great number of the worst ones are also running scams. It's about stealing millions of dollars from unsuspecting chumps just as much as it is about putting 100+ spam emails a day into my inbox, or intruding into my squad's private email list.
I say roast them. They are collectively causing enormous damage to the usability of the internet as well as costing everyone money to deal with their crap. A billboard does not come into my office and offer to sell me porn or noodle enlargers. It's completely different from traditional advertisement, and intrusive panhandlers have been on the wrong side of the law since society began. Why should a spammer be dealt with any more kindly than a guy on the street who gets in your face and harrasses you about buying his porn or dildo collection, preventing you from going about your business? They're both socially intolerable and both sets of actions are against the law. They've been warned but they persist.
As my final word on this since it's all a bunch of yak yak yak, I think that long jail terms for spammers is more desirable than the govt leaving it up to vigilante justice to deal with. Given the cyber attacks and even real postal mail bulk mail attacks that have already been carried out against "outed" spammers, I think it may have just been a matter of time before someone started firebombing these guys. Vigilante actions have been carried out against much less annoying groups of people in the past, and I'm glad the govt is heading them off by taking action before normal people get fed up and act on their own.
