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From: Ron Rogers (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 06:09:49 EST
If you connect to a neighbor's TV cable connection or to the cable box without paying a fee, that is THEFT OF SERVICE. Why do you think it's different to "squat" on someone's wireless connection? At best you are a freeloader and at worst a thief. You certainly do impact the owner's bandwidth/speed. Don't muse about it - it is improper and illegal - you are just rationalizing m.schluz.
Ron Rogers
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Subject: Re: lv-ab: WiFi for Shipboard Use
In a message dated 12-Jan-03 18:12:10 Eastern Standard Time, writes:
>Wouldn't another person using my Internet connection prevent or interfere
with my communications?
>Norm
A person using your Internet connection would not prevent or interfere with
your communications, depending on your available bandwidth, and the activity
of you and the other folks on the network. Normal email and web activity
would probably go unnoticed. Massive file transfers would slow things down.
I find that very hard to believe.
First you say "would not prevent or interfere" then you say "depending". It can't be both. <SNIP>
If someone is using my Internet connection without my permission they are trespassing at the very least, and if they slow down my downloads by any amount they are stealing what I am paying for, and if they are reading my data the trespass is just as criminal as if they were reading my snail mail.
Of course, if you give permission for others to use the connection, or if it is a community connection, it's a much different situation.
Norm
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