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Today one preferred technique of hype artists is ticker spamming. A number of legitimate services like Business Wire and the PR Newswire accept press releases for a fee and channel them onto the Net, automatically sorting them onto stock bulletin boards. This gives spammers a chance to float releases, which just might mention well-known companies in the text alongside the dogs they're hyping. "You go on Yahoo, [ask for] a news story on Microsoft, and you could end up with some manufactured handout touting shares that have no prospects whatsoever," warns Kevin Lichtman, creator of the Stock Detective...
...California students also protest their innocence. Some experts in securities law point out that Internet stock-fraud cases are such a new and rapidly evolving area of jurisprudence that it is too soon to tell how judges will treat the SEC's recent wave of them. "Messages on stock bulletin boards are nothing more than graffiti," argues Mark Werksman, a lawyer for one of the California defendants. "Posting them is an exercise in free speech that imposes no clear legal obligation...
There are plenty of day traders who couldn't care less whether bulletin-board messages are true or not. They buy or sell a stock simply because it's moving in a given direction. As long as the information moves the market, they may be willing to act on it. "Traders today are willingly complicit in the dissemination of false information," says John Coffee, an expert on Internet securities fraud at Columbia University Law School. "That's why they often flock to [the] chat rooms with the worst information, so they can find material that will destabilize the market...
...thought it would be a little more confrontational," said Will S. Joyner, head of Public Affairs at the Divinity School and Editor of the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. "But they were fairly good at talking with one another. They had a similar tone and used the same references...
Pumped up by a little derogatory bulletin-board fodder provided by my partner Mike Volonnino, the players and fans alike dominated the Crimson...