Mike Easter wrote:
> letterman@invalid.com wrote:
>> I just got my first laptop w/wifi card. I have successfully connected
>> while on a trip. Mostly at motels, by just parking in their parking
>> lot. I also picked up a signal at McDonalds but they wanted me to
>> pay, which was not possible because they were closed (after hours).
>>
>> I mostly want to do this when I am on the road travelling, but because
>> I live in a rural area and can only get dialup internet at home, I'd
>> like to find a nearby free connection so I can download large files.
>> For example, at home on dialup it takes well over an hour to download
>> a 15meg file, where using the WIFI only takes a few minutes. I could
>> even watch Youtube videos on this laptop, which at home I can only
>> watch them after I download them to my own harddrive.
>
> I disagree with this usurpation of the bandwidth of others. You are
> saying that you want to make heavy usage of the bandwidth of others who
> have chosen to configure their network insecurely. They didn't configure
> insecurely with the intention of you taking their bandwidth away from them
> and interfering with the best usage of something to which they are
> entitled. They configured insecurely either out of ignorance or out of a
> wish to provide a convenience to their clients to not require a WPA or WEP
> configurational disadvantage.
>
> Your usage of someone else's bandwidth is not 'casual'. It is a heavy
> intentional usage which will impact on others, which heavy intentional
> usage you are making for downloading large files, which with the attitude
> of someone who takes something from others which doesn't belong to them,
> is likely to be copyrighted content.
>
> What exactly is keeping you from subscribing to better bandwidth than
> dialup at home?
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Too cheap or too poor, but then he just got a laptop.