Everything usually comes down to money. I think one of the reasons for these new laws is that Email has become a large part of business (our economy) and Spam has the potential to/has already started to make Email unusable which has the potential to hurt the economy.
Spam has gotten way past the point of being ridiculous. At some point people are going to go in search of something to replace email, because it isn't going to be worth the effort of wading through hundreds of emails just to find out you didn't actually get any mail.
Maybe new laws and suing people aren't the answer. Maybe the answer is some sort of new Email protocol that is more secure and won't let you send email as anybody you want. I don't know. All I know is that people want Spam to go away. And If Spam is going to cause business to lose money, then those businesses will somehow will find away to, either through innovation or through buying their congress man, make it disappear.
