Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Verity International, Ltd.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 13, 2000No. 00 CIV 7422 LAKPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Defendants operate a billing service for Internet pornographers. Web sites containing what defendants euphemistically refer to as adult content ascertain the telephone numbers from which visitors to the sites accessed the Internet through a system known as Automatic Number Identification (“ANI”). Defendants then bill the subscribers of those telephone numbers — who may or may not be the same persons who accessed the web sites — for access to the pornographic materials, although most of the bills here at issue described the services for which the bills…
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