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In the largest anti-spam judgment of all time, “Spam King” Sanford Wallace and partner Walter Rines owe MySpace $230 million for their illegal spam practices on the social networking site after failing to show up for a Los Angeles court hearing.

The pair were prosecuted based on the 2003 federal CAN-SPAM law, which entitles companies $100 for each spam email sent, and the number is tripled if it is done “knowingly and willfully.”
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Kait Duplaga of White Plains, NY knew exactly what to do when thieves took her and her roommates’ possessions: find a computer, activate “Back to my Mac,” and turn on the camera.

Duplaga, who works for an Apple Store in Westchester, NY, had her home robbed of flat screen tvs, liquor, and her Apple laptop. Instead of accepting her fate, her knowledge of Apple applications and her membership in .mac.

.mac membership costs $99 a year and includes other services besides Back to my Mac, including a web gallery, 10G of storage space, IMAP mail access, and web hosting.
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The countdown begins: TomCruise.com is launching on Monday morning.

Certainly, this is the biggest moment in the history of the Web. Forget Web 2.0, we now have Web Tom.0.

The page currently has a countdown clock on it, and nothing else, that glows strangely whenever the number ‘25′ ticks by on the seconds clock. Perhaps this represents the number of people left in the world who don’t think Tom is nuts.
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uTorrent, a P2P filesharing client that is owned by BitTorrent, doubled its number of installs over the last year as torrents continue to run rampant across the Internet.

uTorrent, which isn’t currently available for Mac, is a small but powerful torrent client that seems most popular amongst more tech-savvy users and Europeans. Limewire continues to be the most popular client, but is quickly losing popularity and has gained a reputation as being the more amateur of the torrent clients.
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Smaller dating sites that target a specific group or interest are growing in membership as larger “one size fits all” sites decline.

Sites catering to specific religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientation are growing at extremely high rates. According to information from Hitwise, in March, the Top 3 gay sites on the web increased their US share of site visits by 54% over the year before. Religious sites increased their traffic by 69%, while the top five mainstream sites lost 7% of their hits over the same period.
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