Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
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.
That person is *stoooopid* if he leaves _that_ door wide open. (or
generous)
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.
Exceptions:
1) I don't need to set up any special equipment with WiFi.
2) *ZERO* power companies want to give you free power
2a) A non-zero number of people leave their WAP open on purpose
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