They chose the wrong fax machine to send their crap to.

I say fry all fax spammers...

that law office needs to shut the hell up and read the goddamn fax

Ooops.

Unsolicited faxes -> quite illegal. However if lawyers sue just for their own fax, they're looking at what, $1?

Agree with the other commenters. It's not as big a problem now precisely because of the law, but there was a time not long ago that junk faxes were almost a big a problem for fax machines as spam is for corporate email accounts. Frequent and aggressive use of the private-recovery portion of the junk fax law is a good thing, and I salute the law firm for taking the time to do it.

Justice is served...

/via fax

I'm all for the lawsuit. I work in an office and spam faxes are a real pain in the ass.

More appropriate: .

I wade through bullshiat faxes at my office all day. Worse than spam, beacause, as the article says, they use paper and toner. Fry los bastardos!

Um, either your fax machine uses ink or toner, I have yet to hear of one that uses both. Sloppy reporting.
But, still, junk faxes suck. Fax machines have a finite amount of memory. How'd you like to lose your court case, and thousands of dollars (or your freedom) because some junk fax for $99 Florida Vacations punted a valuable document?

What warped "tricle down economics" moran came up with this headline?

Should have been:
Lawyers do something good for a change.

RTA,

They are going to file a class action suit on behalf of 50 other companies.

Can anyone say "Tort Reform"

Fax spammers suck very very badly. They should be drawn and quartered.

Or maybe not. But they deserve to have the book thrown at 'em.

One order of Los Bastardos Fritos, por favor. To go.

"Today I learned that two wrongs made a right."
"Welcome to my world."

teh lawsuit is right...I worked @ a lawfirm this summer and the unsolicited faxes were rediculous. 3 or 4 before lunch and the same after...8 or so a day adds up.

Sorry, but I'm with the lawyers on this one. Spam faxes are a waste of time and money for the recipients. A number of states have laws against the practice, as do the feds. Spam faxers should die.

/had 8 of them in the machine this morning ... no, we don't need a 0% home loan

Anyone know the short version of the applicable law?

*rushes off to fax them an ad for a heavier duty fax machine*

A Fark story where they lawyers are in the right?!

/some cliche here

Broktun,

I did RTA. The "do not call" list was for more than one person/company too. What's your point? This issue needs to be dealt with. Hopefully this lawsuit will set precedent for a "do not fax" list.

/all for tort reform where it applies, like suing McDonald's because you're fat.

Stupid? I think not... Luckily all our faxes come into a linux server that emails them to us.. no cost for printing but still.. I'm sick of ads for buying stocks and travel companys etc... That stacked with my email spam and the fact that I have to spend valuable time stopping them as well (a losing battle) I'd want to see these companies hit where it hurts.. hopefully it will put them under...farkers...

"Today I learned that two wrongs made a right."
"Welcome to my world."

Three rights make a left, too...

/just sayin'

Hmmmm...

Are butthead radio station junk faxers > jerkola lawyers,

or are jerkola lawyers > butthead radio station junk faxers?


Hmmmmm...

Methinks that as long as they are both preoccupied with each other, they aren't trying to screw me.

Therefore, HERO TAGS FOR EVERYONE!


/can't argue with logic.

You know how every once in a while your phone rings and wakes you at 1:30 AM and it's some bozo trying to send you a fax? That's a fax spammer running a check on every phone number to find new fax machines to send their crap to.

I say sue them to kingdom come.

Hey McFRY!

fax spam is fax spam

ok, for you guys who are getting the spam faxes, here's what you do.
when bugeting time comes up, ask for an extra $3000 or so, and when they ask why, say it's to compensate the dept for all of the junk faxes they're receiving that the lawyers refuses to go after.
the list out the potential income that could be generated by sending the flying buttmonkeys(read:lawyers) after these idiots:
$200 per fax... 10-15 faxes a day... that's $2000-$3000 a day income :)

if nothing else, shock and anger them with exaggerations and present them with poorly created powerpoint presentations. That's the only way to communicate with PHBs.

I say go for it. Nail them to the wall.

Fax bombing.

A short lesson in evil-ness.

This is what you do. Get a sheet of paper and tape something horrible offensive to it. tubgirl or something.

Dial your victims number, then feed the paper in, when its halfway through the reader, loop it outside the fax and tape the ends together, so it runs in a continuous loop. This may take more then 1 sheet of paper.

But boy, is it evil.

/never done it, but always liked the concept

RE: Lawyers doing something right

Aren't they doing it because they got spammed?

It's called federal law. Junk faxes are illegal.

No I do not need cheap toner
No I do not need to make travel arrangements to Cancun
No I do not need to know today's special at your restaurant

/serves them right! Hero tag!

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html

The bit about the toner just muddies the water. The real
issue is the sending of junk faxes. That is ixnay. I hope
the lawyers prevail in this case.

Unsolicited faxes are illegal because enough people complained that lawmakers made a law. Now the people are complaining that they were heard?

Some people are farking stupid morons. Beginning with submitter.

good luck trying to get money out of a radio station. They'll fold before they pay. Not saying the attourneys are wrong, just saying that radio owners are cheap.

For the first time ever I agree with the lawyers. Our biz gets unsolicited faxes (although it has dimished a lot in the last year or two). They suck. The people who send them suck. Sue their asses off!

See? Lawyers aren't so bad! At least not all of them!

Bludstone,

Good idea, but you forget about the header that has your number on it. I think they should string up all Spammers.

Die spammers die.

DarthBrooks, ASWESOME.

DarthBrooks: It's McFly .... So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here.

I'm siding with the attorneys on this one. The radio station sent a junk fax (a cold call, if you will). That's clearly illegal and the victims are completely justified in pursuing the lawsuit. Perhaps the submitter would care to explain why he/she felt this warranted a 'stupid' tag?

We get them all day long. They're a real pain.

Normally, lawyers are teh suck, but I hope they win this.

Slabster

Easily solved by not using your own fax machine :P