Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

I've told you before, please stop stalking me.


No wonder the Jehovah's banished you.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

I believe they are still the property of your neighbour and if you touch them for any reason other than to return them, you are committing an offence, that said I love the analogy

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

I believe(although I may be wrong) that hijacking your neighbours bandwidth is perfectly legal in America and other countries.

Not that it helps my argument, but just thought i'd throw it in anyway.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

You are a real wind up merchant..:rolleyes:

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

Maybe someone should report this guy for stealing someone elses broadband that they are paying for!

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

Is it not true about America?

I did state that I may be wrong.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

Let me put it this way. Whether it's lawful or not I'd rather not try it in view of that countries attitude to gun ownership. ;)

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

That's a very good point. I wasn't actually using it to justify myself, but was genuinely curious if anyone knew.


I think that some people on this thread(not meaning you incognitas) need to lighten up and stop taking themselves and everything so seriously.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

The point is whether its legal or not in the States.

Its not legal to steal someone elses bandwidth in this country.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

Is it not also illegal to record something off the telly and keep it for longer than a certain amount of time?

You're not exactly going to get SO19 round at your door to charge you with over the limit copies of Coronation Street, are you?

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

No. the proposal to limit home recordings to 28 days never made it into law. Private home recording remains a grey area because of this.

In any case, copyright infringement is a civil matter, not criminal. Copyright theft (actually distributing what you have copied) is a criminal matter, and something people can and do get done for.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

I'm going to phone my local police station and say that someone is stealing my bandwidth and will they come round and arrest the person responsible.

Then I'll wait for a couple of weeks with the police not showing up before accepting that nothing is going to be done about it.

No one is being raped or murdered and nothing is being physically stolen from anyone.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

That might say something about the efficiency or effectiveness of your local cop shop but it doesn't prove anything with regards to the law. Others have already posted a specific example of someone being convicted of theft for stealing bandwidth. That's not the first case I've read about either.

It is against the law whether you like it or not.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

They would possibly look into it as some people have recently been done for the same thing.

Re: Is it wrong to hijack your neighbours router?
 

Yes, but these examples are slightly misleading. One was suspiciously parked outside a house using a laptop and was deliberately out looking for routers to hijack, probably to download illegal material as a lot of these 'war drivers' do. Who knows what the others were up to.

Me sitting in my house and jumping onto my neighbours router to have a look at the footie scores is not exactly in the same league, is it?


Isn't it technically illegal for someone to hang a mattress out of a window? Don't hear of many arrests for that crime. :D