In another blow to organized spamming networks, court has awarded US$ 4.8 million in damages and US$ 1.2 million in attorney fee to Myspace.

MySpace continues to wage a legal war on alleged spammers.

An arbitrator has ordered Scott Richter and Media Breakaway to pay the social networking giant $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in legal fees, according to legal filings. The company’s employees were also ordered to stay off MySpace.

Source: CNET

I believe this is an interesting case and rather than being an exception, this should really set a precedent and more and more spammers should be bought to book for spamming our email boxes, websites, forums and blogs. Only when spamming becomes not worth the risk will we see a sharp decline in it.