"Isn't that illegal?" my husband asks as I avert my eyes from the explicit photos in the preview pane, of yet another piece of porn spam. Of course it is - it's just not very often successfully limited by the officials who've made it so. The FTC is claiming that porn spam will significantly decrease (or, at least, be marked "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line) now that five porn companies have agreed to pay cumulative $1.16 million in fines to the FTC. These companies didn't send the emails themselves, but hired others to do so.
The biggest fine, $650,000, was levied on Florida's BangBros.com. Which seems right somehow, given that the company dreamed up a name that sounds like the fake name they would be given were they thinly disguised in an episode of Law & Order.
