Rewards for reporting Web junk mail offenders?

[svidya]

"The financial cost of spam - which in South African law is defined as any unsolicited commercial communication to consumers - is shared between the sender and the recipient, Levin said. Each additional second spent downloading unwanted e-mail costs money, either for the cost of the telephone connection with dial-up service or for the bandwidth space used with a broadband connection." news here
wat do u think abt this? could it be implemented in other countries also?