SJS wrote:
begin quoting MattyJ as of Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:45:00AM -0700:
Not necessarily. The Wifi is a service that I'm paying for, I expect that
only I'm going to be using it, not some freeloader across the street. How
about another analogy?
I expect that you're going to send me $50 each week. You failing to
fulfill my expectations constitutes theft!
The assumption here is that the person with the open AP has an
"unlimited" bandwidth plan.
If that person were paying by the byte, this would be quite clearly theft.
This has also been established in various other arenas. Notably power
transmission.
If you set up a gigantic induction coil to consume the emissions from
power lines, that is also theft. That coil creates a load on the line.
The issue is that your use of the resource diminishes the ability of the
original owner to use that resource.
This is in contrast to the intellectual property and copyright fields
where your production of a copy in no way diminishes anybody else's
ability to use the original (or any other copy for that matter).
-a
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