[49371] in Cypherpunks
Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Feb 6 16:47:23 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu (zinc)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:44:35 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960206132917.8103C-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> from "zinc" at Feb 6, 96 01:33:15 pm
zinc wrote:
| i'm wondering if i set up a cron job to request a copy every 5 or 10
| minutes and just send it to /dev/nul, could i get in more trouble than
| say, someone just telling me to cut it out?
I think that they would try to press charges under the precedent that
a guys modem auto-dialing Jerry Falwell's number was forced to make
restitution. (Forget the reference, sorry.)
The important difference is that they probably are not being billed on
a per transaction basis, whereas 800 numbers are billed per call.
Would they sue? Can you sell a jury on the essential difference being
that they were not billed per copy mailed? I'd expect that they'd
react with a 'cut it out' message first.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
