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Next appeal "severe" €100

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  • #2
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Well holy God, what will be next?


  • #3
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    This guy doesn't get it.

    The point is that it sets a dangerous precedent.
    What if they emailed 100,000 people by mistake?
    Would that be a €10 million euro mistake?
    No. The amount of the fine was crazy excessive because she didn't suffer €100 in damages.


  • #4
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Fuzzy wrote: »
    This guy doesn't get it.

    The point is that it sets a dangerous precedent.
    What if they emailed 100,000 people by mistake?
    Would that be a €10 million euro mistake?
    No. The amount of the fine was crazy excessive because she didn't suffer €100 in damages.

    They could have been liable for €5000 per offence.

    Be careful with your email big business is the message. Who is to say that being spammed isn't worth €100 in disturbance.


  • #5
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    They should try fining some of those nice Nigerian men who try to give you big money for looking after their accounts. I don't think they'd appeal ......... PR and all that :D


  • #6
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    ......goes off to search inbox for emails from Next....


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  • #7
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Fuzzy wrote: »
    This guy doesn't get it.

    The point is that it sets a dangerous precedent.
    What if they emailed 100,000 people by mistake?
    Would that be a €10 million euro mistake?
    No. The amount of the fine was crazy excessive because she didn't suffer €100 in damages.

    That's why you get a warning the first time it happens. Make the same mistake again and you deserve to be fined.

    The judge should really have increased the €100 to deter others.


  • #8
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    MadsL wrote: »
    Who is to say that being spammed isn't worth €100 in disturbance.

    anybody with even an oz of common sense


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