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> signal theft. I prefer to call it poaching. There is really nothing
> being stolen. The other user is paying a flat fee, and the worst that
> can happen is that his or her bandwidth takes a small hit for an
> inconsequential moment.

So lets say that the homeowner has a VoIP phone or two and is mid call
when some guy decides to jump on his wireless and upload a 5MB email at
full whack upstream.

Guess what might happen to the quality of the phone call and then tell
me that nobody is affected by this action.

> Let's drop the house analogy and find something better and more
> accurate. Here is what Wi-Fi spillage is like. Someone has a house and a
> big lawn and a sprinkler system that is watering the lawn and spraying
> the water into the street. You drive into the water spraying into the
> street and use it to wash your car. Are you stealing the water? It's not
> your water. Someone else paid for it and you are using it. Just like the
> Wi-Fi signal.

Yet another analogy that misses the point.