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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Don't bother.
Just post the number of US citizens that have been prosecuted for making use of an unsecured wireless network (that they didn't have to trespass to access) which didn't belong to them... and how many were convicted... and what the average length of incarceration was for the ones that were convicted.
That would be more informative than legalese that's subject to interpretation and overlapping/ever-changing precedent.
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It does happen. This
article reports on a Michigan man arrested for leeching wi-fi, and mentions several other cases, though there isn't a lot of information given.
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This is not the first time someone has been arrested for piggybacking on a WiFi connection. In 2005, a Florida man was arrested and hit with a third-degree felony for surfing an open WiFi network from his SUV. Similarly, an Illinois man was arrested in 2006 for, again, using an unsecured WiFi network from his car. He pleaded guilty to the charges and was given one year's court supervision and a $250 fine. A Washington man was also arrested in 2006 for parking outside of a coffee shop and using the open WiFi connection without purchasing anything. And just earlier this year, an Alaska man was arrested for using the WiFi network from the public library after hours to play games from—you guessed it—his car in the parking lot.
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