After the first bills come in to people unknowingly hosting part of the bot net, seeing the huge charges they will get for bandwidth when they barely used their PC, and refusing to pay their $3,000 monthly bill, this will go down in the flames it deserves.
It's one thing to meter the traffic going to and from a server. Grandma & Grandpa's virus infected PC being used to send thousands of spam letters every night is quite another.
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After the first bills come in to people unknowingly hosting part of the bot net, seeing the huge charges they will get for bandwidth when they barely used their PC, and refusing to pay their $3,000 monthly bill, this will go down in the flames it deserves. It's one thing to meter the traffic going to and from a server. Grandma & Grandpa's virus infected PC being used to send thousands of spam letters every night is quite another.