I bet they were able to pay the fine is cash. Shouldn't waste time with fining them, just do massive amounts of bodily hard to them. Better yet, bring back the stockades. Too bad I don't have an opinion on this.   

They should do it to the spammers too!! They're just as bad.

Spammers annoy the heck out of me, but I can't put them in the same catagory as spyware distributors. To me there's a big jump to actually installing software without user permission, and another big jump when that software is intentionally obscure to uninstall and has the primary function of pumping in advertising, collecting personal information, and using machines to propagate itself to other machines.

As far as these scumbags go, well, use your imagination. I don't want to spew.

I say: take them to the woods, find a nice stump, nail their favorite appendage to said stump, hand them a dull rusty knife, then set the stump on fire.

note: make sure its not a troll stump, even trolls don't deserve that kind of treatment.