To the admins:

[Lucki]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place, but it seemed better the the other threads.

As reported in the Washington Post's Security Fix blog, a substantial hunk of IP address space has apparently been taken over by notorious mass e-mailing company Media Breakaway, LLC, formerly known as OptInRealBig, via means that are at best questionable. The block in question is 134.17.0.0/16, which I documented in depth in an independent investigation. (Apparently, the President of Media Breakaway has now admitted to the Washington Post that his company has been occupying and using the 134.17.0.0/16 block and that front company JKS Media, which provides routing to the block, is actually owned by Media Breakaway.) Remarkably, the president of Media Breakaway, who happens to be an attorney, is trying to defend his company's apparent snatching of this block based upon his own rather novel legal theory that ARIN doesn't have jurisdiction over any IP address space that was handed out before ARIN was formed, in 1997.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/29/2254242.shtml

Just thought that that little tid-bit of info might help with the spammers. If not, please disregard.

 

[Morwen]

Figures a lawyer would own a spam company. Slimey bastards.

 

[Kotsu]

lol What comes accross these peoples minds?

"Man... I hate these d-bags that send me this spam shit... Wait a minute. I could be one of those D-bags! NOW I WILL RULE ZE WORLDZ MUWA HAHAHAHA"

At least; that's what I'd be like as a evil lawyer. :biggrin:

 

[Gatttsu]

Kinda amusing that they would actually give out the IP range block in the article, that whole section is going to get DDoS'd like crazy at some point in time XD

 

[Arctyrael]

Jesus, thats a huge block of addresses just for spamming x.x;

 

[hellstorm]

wow great find