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Nov. 27, 2008

Facebook Seeks Spammers' Attention With Huge Judgment

Facebook Inc., the popular Palo Alto-based social networking site, does not really think it can collect $873 million from a Montreal man whose company acquired login information from users and sent them advertisements for medications and sexually-oriented material.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - Facebook Inc., the popular Palo Alto-based social networking site, does not really think it can collect $873 million from a Montreal man whose company acquired login information from users and sent them advertisements for medications and sexually-oriented material.

But the company, like other Internet giants before it, says it hopes the default judgment - signed last week by a San Jose judge ...

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