[49373] in Cypherpunks
Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Bianco)
Tue Feb 6 17:17:47 1996
From: "David J. Bianco" <bianco@itribe.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:11:36 -0500
In-Reply-To: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
"Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography" (Feb 6, 16:44)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Feb 6, 16:44, Adam Shostack sent the following to the NSA's mail archives:
> Subject: Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
|| 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.
||
And then they would, of course, use the inflated "hit" count as proof positive
that the Internet citizenry is on their side!
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