Comments on: TCPA Claim Over Yahoo!’s IM to SMS Messaging Survives Summary Judgment

By: Path May Be Liable for Text-Spamming Users’ Contact Lists | Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:56:47 +0000

[…] TCPA Claim Over Yahoo!’s IM to SMS Messaging Survives Summary Judgment […]

By: Yahoo! Scores Significant Win in Email-to-SMS Lawsuit | Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:30:24 +0000

[…] We’ve blogged a bunch about text spam lawsuits in general, and about those against Yahoo! as well. Most recently, a judge denied Yahoo!’s request to dismiss a lawsuit relating to IM-to-SMS functionality. (See “TCPA Claim Over Yahoo!’s IM to SMS Messaging Survives Summary Judgment.”) […]

By: One Weird Trick to Make $1,500 Every Time a Yahoo! User Sends You a Message » NC Journal of Law & Technology

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:07:44 +0000

[…] federal district court hearing the claim against Yahoo! finds that ATDS has a very broad definition, anything that has the capacity to store or produce numbers to be called using a random generator […]

By: Byron Warnken

Byron Warnken — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:48:00 +0000

Of course it’s advertising it’s own products. The IM is the product. That’s the actual definition of viral marketing. I believe it should be opt-in, not opt-out.