Re: German court rules moderators liable for forum comments

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:38:40 PDT, Gary Funck said:
> [troubling precedent.  BTW, what is an "internet dialer"?

Back when people still used dialup modems to get to the Internet, it was
considered great fun (and profit) to backdoor somebody's machine with software
that changed the number the modem dialed to call some long-distance
charge-per-minute number (In the US, all that stuff that lives in '900' area
codes, although pointing them to a phone number in Romania that charged $10/min
was common too....)

One of the common ways to get it installed was "Download this program to see
free pr0n!" - which, of course, ended up being far from free.....

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