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Steve Kirsch, ex-Infoseek, hates junk faxes. He created junkfax.org, an awesome resource of legal information that should enable any victim to claim up to $1500 in fines per junk fax received without too much difficulty.

Yesterday, Kirsch filed a lawsuit against junk-fax “king” Fax.com, claiming $2,200,000,000,000 in damages. That’s 2.2 trillion dollars. (For additional coverage of this lawsuit, see the junkfax.org news page.)

Coming just two weeks after the FCC fined fax.com $5,379,000, this lawsuit sounds a lot like another nail in the fax.com coffin.

I find it tremendously refreshing that someone with Kirsch’s determination and resources is focused on an issue like this. Like the privacy law that’s currently getting batted around the California senate, junk faxing is an issue that most consumers have strong feelings about, but the legal changes that would satisfy consumers somehow manage not to ever pass, perhaps because the perpetrators are better-organized and better-financed, or maybe just because the average citizen doesn’t know s/he has the opportunity to make a change.

CA residents who are interested in making a change should check out the junkfax.org page on how to vote against junk faxing.