John Worldpeace (not) was released from federal prison on December 19, 2008. Beware.

Below is an excerpt from the published citation order from the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau against John Worldpeace.

It has come to our attention that your company, acting under your direction, apparently sent one or more unsolicited advertisements to telephone facsimile machines in violation of Section 227(b)(1)(C) of the Communications Act, as described in the attached complaint(s). Section 227(b)(1)(C) makes it "unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States . . . to use a telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine." As relevant here, an "unsolicited advertisement" is "any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services which is transmitted to any person without that person's prior express invitation or permission." Under Commission rules and orders in effect during the relevant period here, the Commission considered an established business relationship between a fax sender and recipient to constitute prior express invitation or permission to send a facsimile advertisement. Mere distribution or publication of a fax number, however, does not establish consent to receive advertisements by fax.

Click link below to read more at the website of the FCC Enforcement Bureau

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2007/DOC-283897A1.html