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Robert Soloway also known as the Spam King was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison. He pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming and tax evasion after being indicted in May 2007. Judge Marsha Pechman handed down her sentence in the U.S. District Court after two and a half days hearing.

Pechman said it was difficult to come up with a sentence for Soloway because there have been so few other spam cases in the courts and because the legal system doesn’t yet have appropriate sentencing guidelines. “This statute really needs a set of guidelines written and tailored to the CAN-SPAM act, tailored to the evolving computer science that allows people to engage in this activity,” she said. “The current guidelines are not really very helpful,” especially when CAN-SPAM violations are combined with other crimes, she said.

Soloway has apologized for his activities before. After he was investigated in 1999 in California for spamming activities, he told detectives that he was sorry and learned a lot, Warma said. “He then moved on to another state and immediately engaged in the same behavior,” she said.

[via yahoo news]