At 10:18 AM -0600 01/14/2006, Dyna wrote:
This theft of service bull is nonsense!
If I buy a subscription to say, MacWorld, then leave it in
the break room at work for my coworkers to read after I've read it,
that's sharing, not stealing. If I buy bandwidth from the local
telco or cable company and let my neighbors have what I don't need,
that's sharing, not stealing.
Granted, the telcos and cable industry with their lobbyists
have managed to persuade congress otherwise, but those laws are
unenforceable anyway- is anyone doing time in club fed for "theft of
service" with their home computer?
Sorry, you're off base.
Sharing a magazine is a one-way product loan. You get it back, with
no resources lost.
Sharing an ISP's service uses the ISP's resources. If you are not
licensed / authorized to be using the service then it is Theft.
People ARE prosecuted for it.
An example: Two years ago, we had problems with our Comcast service
dropping to below v.90 speeds during the evenings. We complained.
Comcast investigated and determined there are more people on the drop
than were paying. They hunted the two offenders down and filed theft
charges. The people were arrested, arraigned, then cut deals - they
paid fines instead of being tried. ...Then they threatened to sue us
because we dropped their names at a home-owners association meeting.
:)
- Dan.
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