A Copenhagen court has fined a Danish telecommunications equipment firm a record 400 000 Danish crowns ($68 000) for sending up to 1 500 unsolicited e-mails.
Spam originating from Denmark is still reported to be relatively rare because of strict marketing laws.
The consumer ombudsman brought the case against Aircom Erhverv ApS, saying the practice of sending unsolicited e-mails intended to market goods or services to the recipient was an infringement of Denmark`s marketing law.
"The judgment is tough but fair," says Martin Thorborg, co-founder of Denmark`s SPAMfighter.com. "If we want to can spam, society has to take a stand. Spam sent from Denmark is very rare. I would say that we have seen less than 10 Danish-produced spam mails in Denmark in the last year. And we can thank the strict Danish laws and the Danish consumer ombudsman Hagen Jorgensen for that."
SPAMfighter screens e-mail and removes spam, claiming to remove 1.3 million spam mails from 2.5 million screened e-mails received by users in 130 countries daily.
Denmark is one of six European Union states to have implemented a European Commission directive on privacy and electronic communications that calls for stiff sanctions against firms that send unsolicited electronic communications.
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