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Originally Posted by karthwyne
Actually, yes it is very different. It is more akin to complaining that I am listening to the music someone is blaring at 3am. If the signal is trespassing off of the originator's property, they don't have much right to complain if someone casually intercepts it.
If the person trespasses ONTO the property where the wifi is in order to use it, then it is like the situation you described.
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These comparisons are odious.
You have no idea, if you make unauthorised use of someone's wi-fi, what financial (or other) cost that may have to the person whose set-up you are using.
A hypothetical extreme (I like hypothetical extremes, because if the extreme seems ok then no problem, if the extreme seems wrong then look at your principle) - X has an ISP who charges for every Mb of usage, Y picks up X's unsecure wi-fi signal and downloads a ton of stuff, leaving X with a bill he cannot afford to pay.
Does anyone truly not see this as wrong conduct on the part of Y? If wrong for Y, then wrong full-stop it seems to me.