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I. How far should our society and police force go to protect its citizens? v {r Subscribe One of the world's most prolic spammers, Jeremy Jaynes accumulated $24 million by promoting, via spam, get-rich-quick schemes, pornography, and sham products and services. During an investigation into his activities, at his residence the police found a CD containing more than 1.3 billion user names. Jaynes also had a DVD containing e-mail addresses and other personal account information for millions of individuals, all of which had been stolen from America Online. In a Virginia state court, Jaynes was convicted of three counts of felony spamming under the Virginia Computer Crimes Act (VCCA), based on the fact that he had sent more than ten thousand pieces of spam per day on three separate days, using false Internet addresses and aliases. The jury sentenced him to nine years in prison. This was the rst felony conviction for spamming in the United States. On appeal, Jaynes argued that Virginia did not have jurisdiction over him and that the state's criminal spamming statute violated his First Amendment rights to free speech. The state appellate court found thatjurisdiction was proper because Jaynes utilized servers within the state and concluded that the statute did not violate the First Amendment. Jaynes appealed further. In Jaynes v. Commonwealth of Virginia, the Supreme Court of Virginia reversed the conviction. The court held that the VCCA, which prohibited the falsication of routing information in connection with the transmission of spam, "was substantially overbroad on its face, and thus unconstitutional\" because it l'was not limited to commercial or fraudulent transmission of e-mail, but prohibited the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mails, including those containing political, religious or other protected speech.\" Do you think society (the police and courts) should go further to protect people? Or do you think they go to far already? Why or why not