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Hold on a second

Comment comment by Bortnyk on 18 January 2008

If I steal a car I deprive the owner of its use. If I am on my neighbors wireless, he can still use it. The whole neighborhood can probably use it without depriving him of its use. The only person that is being deprived is the internet service provider losing out on fees.

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Devil's Advocate by VnutZ :: NR8

If I am on my neighbors wireless, he can still use it. The whole neighborhood can probably use it without depriving him of its use.

I will add that ISPs that secretly use bandwidth caps (like ComCast was caught doing) will "deprive" the paying owner of the network of his access.

There should be an onus on the wireless owner to secure it, however. Let's jump back to the car analogy for a moment. If you leave your car unlocked in New York City with the keys in it ... you are an idiot and while the NYPD will probably make "an effort" to locate your car, that effort will be cursory at best after they laugh their asses of at you. Responsibility and Privilege go hand in hand.

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RE: Hold on a second by ldsudduth :: NR6

If I steal a car I deprive the owner of its use. If I am on my neighbors wireless, he can still use it.

But not completely--you are depriving him of part of his bandwidth (I'm not going to get into the whole ComCast debacle at this point--it's not relevant, but cudos to VNut for pointing it out) that he has paid for; ergo it's still stealing.

Perhaps a better analogy would be an ink pen--where the buyer of the pen 'buys' a certain amount of ink; and if you use it, you deprive him of part of that ink.

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