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NEW YORK Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner Tuesday signed two bills to raise the penalty to a felony for high-volume, unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam.
The new anti-spam provisions of the Virginia Computer Crimes Act make it the toughest such law in the United States. Under the new statute (SB 1139/HB2290), hard-core hackers and spammers—those who produce the most offensive and persistent e-mail solicitations, actually aimed at crippling servers—will now face a class 6 state felony, which carries a prison term of five years and a fine.
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