A guy at work recently mentioned a person had been arrested for sitting in a car using someone elses unsecured wireless broadband.
This is a bit of a first as I'm aware, but does raise some moral questions:
Is it theft if you leave your doors and windows open? insurance would certainly not pay out in this situation.
Legally, you are not tresspassing on private property until you are asked to leave, so is leaving your network unsecured comparible? do you have to say 'get out' before it becomes illegal?
How does this compare to watching someones TV through their window?
Is it 'stealing' if the connection is not actually charging the user any more than they pay already? Does stealing bandwidth constitute theft as it's occupying bandwidth you as the recpient of such theft would not be able to use?
Who is responsible for the content transmitted over your connection? What if they visited illegal sites etc? Where does you ISP fit in the chain of responsiblity.
These were some of the points we thought about, anyone got anything to add (or even legal knowledge to clarify some of the points we mentioned!)
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