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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 74 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I tend to always give the underdog the benefit of the doubt in these cases.

Remember when a lady suffered third degree burns from coffee at a McDonalds drive through? Everybody made fun of her but she was right, she won in court, and McDonalds had to retrain staff and change how equipment was operated at every single location.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That lady had ~~polyester pants melted deep into her skin.~~

Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants, which absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks and groin.[

I doubt her settlement paid all the bills, especially after attorney fees

Edited because I was wrong.

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[–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's no way of knowing what happened there.

But back in the mid to late 2000's we had a whole bunch of residential internet customers and every so often one would blow their traffic cap by a bunch and would ring up and say "Your billing system is wrong!".

Then whoever could be bothered in the office would do some modest analysis on their netflow data and come up with something like "18% of your traffic this month was redtube.com, 33% was pornhub.com and 9% was xhamster.com.

We never knew if whoever was on the phone was the raging porn addict or it was one of their associates. Either way they would say "Oh well, I guess we will never know then. Thanks for your help. Bye.". Followed by them quietly paying the bill.

[–] xilliah 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Current ISPs have to by law. Just incase you go on howtobeaterrorist.com and need to be stopped. It's not overstepping at all. Definitely not.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You know, I would also like to beat errorists.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Greetings, gellow perfectionist.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Greetings, yellow perfectionist.

FTFY

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I just tried that url and it's down

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

ISPs still can track your online activity, it's up to them whether or not they will store it

[–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yep, any time you have a traffic cap or bill for traffic you've got to have data to back up what you are billing for.

More recently CDN's ( and widespread SSL adoption ) have made it a whole lot less obvious what sites the user is going to. I suspect that nice clearcut list of porn sites from 2007 would just look like some cloudflare, akamai and google these days.

[–] anarchist@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Adult films??? Oh my, how scandalous!!

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago

It's Ron! Absolute classic!