{"id":484,"date":"2007-01-23T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/01\/23\/and-you-think-youve-got-spam-problems\/"},"modified":"2011-08-11T01:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T05:37:27","slug":"and-you-think-youve-got-spam-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/01\/23\/and-you-think-youve-got-spam-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"And you think you&#8217;ve got spam problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>A court in China has ordered a Chinese television production company to pay damages to a man who received more than 3,000 nuisance messages after his mobile phone number was used in a police TV drama.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* OddPlanet_300x250_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3290981241\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The court said the Runshi Rongguang Film Production Co. should have made sure the number was not in use before having a villain say it aloud on-screen, China&#8217;s official Xinhua News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The company was ordered to pay $256 to the mobile phone customer, Chen Bing.<\/p>\n<p>Chen, 39, says he started receiving a stream of text messages in July 2004.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>&#8220;It was so annoying, and for a long time I wondered why I was getting all these text messages,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chen discovered that his number had been used in a TV series called &#8220;Chinese Police &#8211; September Storm,&#8221; broadcast between 2004-06 and later released on DVD. 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