OT: Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal - Yahoo! News

[slegge at govliquidation.com]

Can I come over and run my favorite p2p client and grab some free movies 
and music ? The MPAA and RIAA wont mind... If they do you say what no 
other criminal has ever said before "IT WASNT ME HONEST!" The rest of the 
world isnt open sourced... This guy was more than likely doing something 
shady otherwise what cop would arrest based on something like getting 
mapquest directions or checking his email???



-Scott




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Donn wrote:
> On 7/13/05, *Ted Gould* <ted at gould.cx <mailto:ted at gould.cx>> wrote:
> 
>     I guess I get tired of the phrase "people who have open WAPs are 
lazy or
>     stupid".  I have a WAP, it is open.  I know how to configure it.  I
>     choose to leave it open.  I haven't had any issues.
> 
>                     --Ted
 >
> So, do you leave your car unlocked with the keys in it too? Your choice.

No, and perhaps that's the misunderstanding:

"free software" is to "free hardware"

                 - as -

"free Wifi" is to "free car"

If you use my Wifi, there is no additional cost to me.  If you take my 
car, I would have to buy another.  This is the same as software 
requiring no cost to replicate versus hardware which does.

                                 --Ted

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