OT: unathorized network user.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 00:15:53 +0000,
  Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> of damage.  The existence of a contract to provide a service
> is an important part of this: you promise not to do anything
> bad and in return they let you use the network, with the
> understanding that if you /do/ do anything bad they will not
> hesitate in helping to track you down and string you up.

Not if you are paying enough money. ISPs used to do pink contracts in the
past for spammers. There is probably still some of that today, but they
have to compete with the botnets these days probably not making this
business profitable.