Beehaw
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( Emperor@feddit.uk )  to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 years ago

An elderly couple were billed £200 for pay-per-view adult films they claim they never ordered

c.l3n.co

message-square
12
link
fedilink
207

An elderly couple were billed £200 for pay-per-view adult films they claim they never ordered

c.l3n.co

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( Emperor@feddit.uk )  to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 years ago
message-square
12
link
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • FiniteBanjo ( FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    74
    ·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • exocrinous ( exocrinous@startrek.website ) BannedBanned
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Removed by mod

    • Maeve ( Maeve@kbin.social ) 
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      3 years 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.

  • deadbeef ( deadbeef@lemmy.nz ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    3 years ago

    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 ( xilliah@beehaw.org ) deleted by creator
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      deleted by creator

      • Echo Dot ( echodot@feddit.uk ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        3 years ago

        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 ( TheOakTree@lemm.ee ) 
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          3 years ago

          You know, I would also like to beat errorists.

          • JasonDJ ( JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) 
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            3 years ago

            Greetings, gellow perfectionist.

            • TheOakTree ( TheOakTree@lemm.ee ) 
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              ·
              3 years ago

              Greetings, yellow perfectionist.

              FTFY

        • Rusty ( Rusty@lemmy.ca ) 
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          3 years ago

          I just tried that url and it’s down

      • ElectroLisa ( ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 years ago

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

      • deadbeef ( deadbeef@lemmy.nz ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        3 years 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.

  • anar ( anarchist@lemmy.ml ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    3 years ago

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

  • GreatAlbatross ( GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 years ago

    It’s Ron! Absolute classic!

Casual UK@feddit.uk

casualuk@feddit.uk

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !casualuk@feddit.uk

Casual UK

A casual place for banter and anything that doesn’t fit in anywhere else.

Have chat and a natter. Talk about anything and everything that’s not political!

Keep it casual.

Rules

  • No politics.
  • Be friendly.
  • Be kind & civil.
  • No Generative AI Content
  • Follow Feddit.uk site rules.

Other communities:

Here:

  • !askuk@feddit.uk
  • !britishproblems@feddit.uk
  • !britishsuccess@feddit.uk

Elsewhere:

  • !UKCasual@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 86 users / day
  • 429 users / week
  • 546 users / month
  • 1.68K users / 6 months
  • 30 local subscribers
  • 4.87K subscribers
  • 586 Posts
  • 4.35K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • tkc ( tkc@feddit.uk ) 
  • blackn1ght ( blackn1ght@feddit.uk ) 
  • HM King Charles III DG FD ( Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
  • BE: 0.19.21
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code