Porn spammers get jail term

The Business Journal of Phoenix reports that a federal judge in Arizona sentenced two men to more than five years in prison for an international pornographic spamming business that grossed more than $1 million. Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, Calif., was sentenced to 72 months and James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, was sentenced to 63. Kilbride received a longer sentence based on the court’s finding that he had obstructed justice by attempting to prevent a government witness from testifying at the trial. The trial in was the first to include charges under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, a law designed to crack down on the transmission of pornography in commercial bulk unsolicited electronic mail messages.