At the time Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in a federal prison in 2005, he was described as one of the world’s worst spammers, using AOL servers to distribute 10 million spam mails every day.
Today he’s a free man, that conviction overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court, which said that the state’s anti-spam law, under which unsolicited bulk e-mail is considered a felony if it goes to more than 10,000 people in a 24-hour period, violated the First Amendment right to free speech.
In its unanimous ruling the court stated:
