{"id":3929,"date":"2022-05-14T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/?page_id=3929"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:45:03","slug":"business-and-professions-code-bpc-17529","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/business-and-professions-code-bpc-17529\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Professions Code &#8211; BPC 17529"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l36162ae-2bc3c3a8c21189aa17afcbfab335eeeb\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-l36162ae-2bc3c3a8c21189aa17afcbfab335eeeb{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-l36162ae-2bc3c3a8c21189aa17afcbfab335eeeb .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-l36162ae-2bc3c3a8c21189aa17afcbfab335eeeb 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class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(a)\u2002Roughly 40 percent of all e-mail traffic in the United States is comprised of unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements (hereafter spam) and industry experts predict that by the end of 2003 half of all e-mail traffic will be comprised of spam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(b)\u2002The increase in spam is not only an annoyance but is also an increasing drain on corporate budgets and possibly a threat to the continued usefulness of the most successful tool of the computer age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(c)\u2002Complaints from irate business and home-computer users regarding spam have skyrocketed, and polls have reported that 74 percent of respondents favor making mass spamming illegal and only 12 percent are opposed, and that 80 percent of respondents consider spam very annoying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(d)\u2002According to Ferris Research Inc., a San Francisco consulting group, spam will cost United States organizations more than ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000) this year, including lost productivity and the additional equipment, software, and manpower needed to combat the problem. \u2002California is 12 percent of the United States population with an emphasis on technology business, and it is therefore estimated that spam costs California organizations well over 1.2 billion dollars ($1,200,000,000).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(e)\u2002Like junk faxes, spam imposes a cost on users, using up valuable storage space in e-mail inboxes, as well as costly computer band width, and on networks and the computer servers that power them, and discourages people from using e-mail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(f)\u2002Spam filters have not proven effective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(g)\u2002Like traditional paper \u201cjunk\u201d mail, spam can be annoying and waste time, but it also causes many additional problems because it is easy and inexpensive to create, but difficult and costly to eliminate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(h)\u2002The \u201ccost shifting\u201d from deceptive spammers to Internet business and e-mail users has been likened to sending junk mail with postage due or making telemarketing calls to someone&#8217;s pay-per-minute cellular phone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(i)\u2002Many spammers have become so adept at masking their tracks that they are rarely found, and are so technologically sophisticated that they can adjust their systems to counter special filters and other barriers against spam and can even electronically commandeer unprotected computers, turning them into spam-launching weapons of mass production.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(j)\u2002There is a need to regulate the advertisers who use spam, as well as the actual spammers, because the actual spammers can be difficult to track down due to some return addresses that show up on the display as \u201cunknown\u201d and many others being obvious fakes and they are often located offshore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(k)\u2002The true beneficiaries of spam are the advertisers who benefit from the marketing derived from the advertisements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(<i>l<\/i>)\u2002In addition, spam is responsible for virus proliferation that can cause tremendous damage both to individual computers and to business systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subsection\">\n<p>(m)\u2002Because of the above problems, it is necessary that spam be prohibited and that commercial advertising e-mails be regulated as set forth in this article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a 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