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A case against the anti-spam group Spamhaus brought by e360 Insight and its founder David Linhardt was reconsidered by the lower court with a $11.7m verdict cut to just $27,002. US Judge Charles P. Kocoras of the Eastern District of Illinois said the plaintiffs didn’t provide credible calculation of the damages that resulted when its promotional emails were targeted by Spamhaus.

 On Thursday the social networking giant Facebook was granted by the court $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.

The social networking company sued Wallace for his illicit activity of accessing users’ profiles without their permission and sending fake posts and messages. Apart from the damages award the San Jose, Calif., court referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's office for prosecution for criminal contempt of court - meaning he could face imprisonment.

On Friday Swedish court pronounced its judgment in the Pirate Bay case. The four defendants were found guilty of violating copyright laws. The verdict was handed down to four men behind BitTorrent tracker site this morning in a court in Stockholm.

"The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has sentenced each of them to one year in prison."