Quoted from TigerLaw:If the government fined the phone companies for each of the spammer calls the phone companies would solve the problem in less than a week. Currently the phone companies are in partnership with the spammers, change a law to stick it to the phone companies and put a financial burden on them and all this madness would end.
I'm sure the phone company's defense would be "we're just supplying the conduit, we can't help that someone is abusing it"....but that's what Napster was doing too, right?