Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Tyrion wrote:
Tracy R Reed wrote:
Do your neighbors know you are stealing their wireless?
Is it truly stealing if the AP is not secured?
Legally? Yes. Most of the rulings have gone that way. This is
similar to an unlocked house. An unlocked front door does not mean
you can cart off everything inside.
That having been said: does anybody care? Probably not.
(Not being a lawyer)
We don't really need lawyers involved at all until someone decides to be
an asshat.
I would think that the analogy would better fit an
unlocked house...
The house analogy doesn't work no matter how we try to twist it.
Come to think of it, I think the analogy would better fit some transient
(living in some nearby cubbyhole) using the spigot on the side of your
house to drink from and to wash his hands and face every now and again
(assuming you would not have to pay more for the extra water). Assuming
that you are not taking a nice warm shower at the time, what's the harm?
This comes closer. But instead, let's say you have your water running
continuously such that it flows onto my property. Is it my bad that I
manage to fill my swimming pool with your errant water?
If I stand on the sidewalk in front your yard, and I breathe, am I
stealing the oxygen from your trees and plants?
The thing is, if you have an open AP, then the EMR from that AP is
blasting at everyone with range of it. As far as I'm concerned, once
you've radiated it, it's up for grabs by anyone. I didn't take it from
you. *You* offered it to *me* by not confining it! If anyone should be
assaulted by lawyers over this, it should be the person sharing his
ISP's bandwidth with the world, not the people just soaking up something
that wandered uninvited into /their/ house.
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