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The Scumbag Industry Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004, 19:38:57

According to this ZDNet article, 22 percent of U.K. online consumers have bought software through spam.. And:

Among the most popular items being sold via unsolicited e-mail is illegal software--in many cases adding to the number of laws being broken by the sellers.

Now I don't buy the software industry's bitching and moaning about how "pirated" software is supposedly ruining them. But it's interesting to see that spammers attract a clientele that suits them just fine. Yuck.