As credit card companies clamp down on high-risk sites, online porn sites
are
turning
to "dialers", programs which divert the user's Internet connection through
a suitably-bribed^H^H^H^H^H^Hfriendly foreign telco, that splits the charges
with the site. Thus hapless porn-surfers are being slugged with astronomical
phone bills and no way to do anything about it. (
Nobody reads the fine
print on those multi-page click-through agreements, right?) (WIRED News)