A jury in Seattle Monday ruled that a pornography marketer was not responsible for spam sent by some affiliates, handing the Federal Trade Commission a stunning defeat.
The jury in U.S. District Court in Seattle unanimously determined in a civil proceeding that Impulse Media Group Inc. was not responsible for hundreds of unsolicited, sexually explicit commercial e-mails sent by some of its affiliates to bring traffic to its sites.
The case, brought under the Can Spam Act, hinged on whether Impulse
