Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Crescent Publishing Group, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 24, 2001No. 00 Civ. 6315(LAK)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Defendants operate pornography web sites that have offered visitors “free tours” of parts of the contents. In order to take a “free tour,” however, a visitor was asked to enter his or her credit card number. The visitor was assured that the card “will not be billed” during the free tour and told that the card number was necessary so that defendants could verify the user’s age. Once the visitor entered a valid card number, the visitor was permitted to begin the “free tour.” At some point, however, the “free” part of the tour ended and the defendants…
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