On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Matthew Copple wrote:
fancy radio, after all. But jumping on someone's router, pulling an IP and surfing on that person's bandwidth is a deliberate act,
I like this analogy better: Person A walks up to a stream on a person B's property and drinks some water. Yes, it's a deliberate act. But, we all have to share this planet, and reasonable persons doing respectful and reasonable things didn't historically create a need for attorneys. Now, if this person A drives his water truck in and hauls off twenty thousand gallons, or releases toxins into the stream for person B and everyone downstream to deal with, this is obviously a different ball gane. Otherwise, no harm, no foul.
But anybody (probably a corporation) too stupid to secure their wifi is probably stupid enough to sue for harmless trespass, so don't pay any attention to my pollyannaism.
Regards,
-Don