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Originally Posted by Chris T
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.
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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.
