Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography

[Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>]

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


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